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TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 



(THE SCRIPTURAL CHURCH) 



BY 

SIDNEY C.TAPP, PH. B. 

Author of 

The Story of Anglo-Saxon Institutions, or 

The Development of Constitutional Government, 

The Struggle, 

The Sexology of the Bible, 

(The Fall and Redemption of Man a Matter of Sex) 

Why Jesus Was a Man and Not a Woman. 

etc. 




PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR UNDER THE AUSPICES OF 

THE SIDNEY C. TAPP INTERNATIONAL 

BIBLICAL SOCIETY 

All orders for this book should be sent to the Author, Kansas City, 
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COPYRIGHTED 1915 BY 

SIDNEY C. TAPP 

Kansas City, Missouri 

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DEDICATION 

This Volume, as Revised, is Dedicated 
to The Truth. 

The Author 



INDEX 

Preface to the First]Edition 7 

A Word Personal to the First Edition 9 

Preface to the Second Edition 13 

The Real and the Unreal 15 

Creation 25 

The Fall of Man 27 

The Garden of Eden 33 

The Flaming Sword 39 

The Physical and Spiritual Man 41 

Material Man 52 

The Spiritual Man 67 

The Seed of the Serpent and the Seed of the Woman 74 

The Carnal Mind and the Spiritual Mind 80 

The Carnal Mind — Sickness and Disease 89 

The Spiritual or Innate Mind 100 

The Creation — Spirit and Matter — or Spirit and 

Flesh 113 

Marriage and the Natural Birth 120 

The Origin of Evil and Sin 152 

Physical Disease, Sickness and Death 168 

Israel 176 

The Priesthood 188 

The Immaculate and Supernatural Conception — 
The Crucifixion — The Resurrection — Atonement 
— Baptism — Conversion and Regeneration, and 

the Trinity 195 

How to Prevent Physical Weakness, Sickness and 

Death 223 

Heaven and Hell 230 

Sin 238 

Idolatry 244 

The Serpent 249 



Sex Worship 263 

The True and the False Prophet 278 

The Confession and the Confessional 285 

The Veil 290 

Money and Sensuality 296 

Pride and Humility 303 

Multiply, Replenish and Subdue the Earth 307 

The Christ and His Healing Power 318 

The Gospel and the Christian 338 

The Church 352 

Redemption and the Church Triumphant 364 

Appendix 368 

A Word Personal as to Part Second 369 

Part Second — Conception, The New Birth, and 

Recapitulation 370 

Addresses and Other Proceedings 403 



PREFACE. 

(To the First Edition.) 

The Bible is a Mirror. If man would see himself — 
both as a physical and spiritual being, let him look 
into this Mirror. 

If man would understand God's Word, he must 
first know himself in his dual nature — both as a physi- 
cal and a spiritual being. 

To understand the Bible is to know man — man 
whom God created in His own image — the spiritual man, 
and the physical man conceived in lust and born of 
woman. The Bible is a revelation from God as to the 
true character of this dual natured creature we call 
"man." In Truth there is but one man — and he is 
Spiritual and made in God's Image; but he tasted the 
death of the Flesh — and became dual in nature. 

To understand the Bible is to know man. 

In this Work, the Author has honestly and con- 
scientiously interpreted the Word of God as applied 
to this dual natured creature called man and he believes 
in so doing has disclosed The Truth of God's W T ord. 

Read the Book, Dear Reader, and see if you do not 
have a different viewpoint of God's Word, and man, and 
the application of Holy Writ to man as a spiritual and 
physical being; and, after due consideration, see if you 
are not convinced in your mind and spiritual nature 
that the views disclosed in this Book is The Truth of 
God's revelation to man. - S. C. T. 

Kansas City, Mo., 1912. 



A WORD PERSONAL. 

(To the First Edition.) 

The Author expects for this Work to be misunder- 
stood and misconstrued as is always the case when any 
truth is first given to the world. 

The Author does not wish to be understood as at- 
tacking the marriage relation and the home; but he 
does desire to say that he most honestly and sincerely 
contends that, both according to Holy Writ and the laws 
of nature, marriage is a physical and natural institution 
and not a spiritual institution — and that the physical 
conception and birth of the natural man is a matter of 
the flesh and not of the Spirit. 

Few books in the history of the world were ever 
written under the disadvantages which have handi- 
capped and surrounded the Author during the writing 
of this Work. He was left an orphan when nine years 
of age. He inherited a weak nervous system and frail 
constitution and not having the home cares while grow- 
ing up, he developed a stomach and intestinal trouble 
which finally destroyed his physical constitution, being- 
unable to digest and assimilate his food. He has been 
operated upon five times — these operations destroyed 
his nervous system. During these years he knew nothing 
of the Spiritual Truths disclosed in this Work. But for 
the last several years after coming into the spiritual 
knowledge of these things he has lived by Mind and 
Spirit overcoming matter. The continuation of his life 
for the last five years has been a miracle to all who knew 
him. How he continued to live no one understood. Life 
with him was a matter of mind and Spirit controlling- 
matter. 

When a young fellow, making his way in school, he 
wanted to be a lawyer — but being rather religiously 
and morally inclined he purposed at one time going into 



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the ministry. But the more he heard of materialistic 
preaching according to the scholastic creeds, the greater 
mystery the Bible became. He could not understand it 
or comprehend it and being honest with himself, he 
would not attempt to teach others to believe a thing 
that he did not believe himself — so he changed his course 
of life and was admitted to the Bar and entered upon the 
practice of the law, which vocation he pursued until his 
health entirely failed him. 

With his nervous system shattered and constitu- 
tion completely destroyed he started from Kansas City 
in May, 1912, for Denver, Colorado— which city had 
been his residence for some years — on arriving at Wray, 
Colorado, the altitude proved too high for his shattered 
nervous system so he retreated to Hastings, Nebraska, 
where he spent the summer. While there this Work was 
dictated in a sick room, a page or two at a time, as he 
could collect strength enough to express his ideas and 
thoughts. He has not possessed the physical strength 
to read his own manuscript and has had to depend on 
others to do this for him. If there be immaterial clerical 
errors in the work this explanation must be satisfactory 
to the Reader until they can be corrected in another 
edition. If there be mistakes or errors — they are clerical 
and immaterial. The fundamental ideas of the Author 
are expressed as he desired them. 

Some may call this Work vulgar. The Truth can 
never be vulgar. To the clean, the Truth is always 
clean. We have dealt with the Truth as it is in God's 
Word in as chaste terms as honesty of purpose would 
permit. 

A word personal as to the Author may not be out 
of place here, as he will probably be in his grave when 
this Work reaches the public. He was born on a plan- 
tation in North Carolina and is the youngest child of 
Ruffin R. and Malissa Tapp, and has one brother, L. P. 
Tapp, Kinston, North Carolina. His mother's maiden 
name was Dunnagan. Both paternal and maternal 
sides of his family were slave owners and planters. They 
belonged to that civilization which challenged the world 
for morals, honesty and intelligence — and which pre- 
vailed in the South previous to the Civil War — and has 
now passed into history. He was born in a southern 



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mansion — but by reason of the death of his parents when 
a child and the destruction of property values by the 
Civil War — had the life of an outcast waif during his 
boyhood. He was graduated in 1892 from Furman 
University, South Carolina, and entered upon the prac- 
tice of law. 

In 1910 while he was sick unto death in California 
his name was presented to the President for appoint- 
ment to the Circuit Court of Appeals of the Eighth 
Circuit, but his health was in such a condition his name 
could not be pressed by his friends. After he has gone 
and is sleeping in the grave those who disapprove of 
this Work no doubt will denounce him as a moral per- 
vert—as a mad man — and a fool; that the truth may be 
known as to him and his character in the appendix of this 
Work may be found extracts from letters addressed to the 
President of the United States by the leading men of the 
country requesting his appointment to the Federal 
Bench. 

The Author has not attempted to make this a work 
of literature, but to express The Truth. If there be repe- 
tition, it is because he wanted to impress the idea and 
thought. 

He is grateful to Mr. W. H. Lanning of Hastings, 
Nebraska, who was good enough to have the Manu- 
script to this Work transcribed for the publishers. 

SIDNEY C. TAPP. 



PREFACE. 
(To the Second Edition.) 

Since writing the First Edition of this Book, over two 
years ago, the Author — by living the Truth taught 
therein— has gained much in health and strength, and 
his Spiritual vision and understanding has unfolded 
greatly. 

Chapters one and twenty-two to thirty-four of this 
Edition inclusive, are the results. The other chapters, 
herein, constituted the First Edition, and they have been 
greatly revised in this Edition. In the chapters which 
compose the First Edition, the Author used the terms — 
Innate, Intuitive, Spiritual, and Subjective Minds as 
synonyms, and the terms Educated, Natural, Carnal, 
and Objective Minds as synonyms. In the New chapters 
of this Edition, the Author has used the terms Immortal 
and Spiritual Minds as synonyms and Mortal and Ma- 
terial Minds as synonyms. The terms Innate, Intuitive, 
and Subjective, Immortal and Spiritual Minds are used 
to convey the Idea of the Mind of the Soul — and the 
terms Educated, Natural, Objective, Mortal, Carnal and 
Material Minds are used to convey the Idea of the Mind 
of the senses — the flesh. 

During the revision of this Work, the Author did noc 
have the money to employ a stenographer to preserve his 
ideas and reduce them to orderly fashion as they came into 
his mind. He has been compelled to go from place to 
place and secure a stenographer an hour or two here and 
there — frequently exchanging a book as compensation for 
an hour or two of clerical help. The Work is not, there- 
fore, as ornate, orderly and systematic as it might be. 
The purpose of the Author has been, while laboring under 
this great disadvantage, to place Ideas in the Work so as 
to make the reader think and to awake sleeping humanity 
to the Truth of the Bible, rather than to give the public 

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a Work of Art. We have placed a book within a chapter 
at times. This has not been done without a purpose — 
we had a subject in mind, when writing a chapter, and we 
wished to cover the Idea. We have frequently presented 
the same subject matter from different viewpoints — in 
different chapters. We had a purpose in doing this — we 
were writing for the educated and the non-educated — the 
layman and the professional man — and we had to com- 
promise our style and treatment of the subject matter, 
so as to be clear enough to convey our meaning to the 
layman, and non-educated, and yet sufficiently academic 
to hold the attention and interest of the man of letters. 
To write for the "mixed" audience is no easy undertaking. 
We hope the Book, as Revised, will arrest the attention 
of the public and cause men to study the Bible from the 
viewpoint of sex. When the world comes to realize that 
the Bible is a book of sex and that the sex Senses control 
the Mind, and that all sin is within the Mind as in- 
fluenced by the sex Senses, and that diseases mentally 
and physically are the results of Sin, the Bible will not be 
a Book of doubt. The Truth of the Bible and the Truth 
of Revelation is the Truth of Nature. Wherever, we 
have used the phrase "the Man made in God's Image" in 
this Work, we mean thereby, the man that is spiritually 
conceived by the Divine Mind. 

Sincerely, 

SYDNEY C. TAPP. 
Kansas City, Mo., 1915. 



CHAPTER I. 
THE REAL AND THE UNREAL. 

"God is Truth/' Exodus 34: 6; John 7: 17; John 
17:3; John 1:17; Rev. 15:3; Rev. 16:7. Truth is 
Reality and the correct association of Ideas, and God is 
the Reality of the Universe — Mind, Spirit — and He as 
Mind and Spirit is the only Reality in the Universe. 
All that appears other than God — Mind — Spirit — 
is Unreal and Error; and does not exist in Fact and in 
Reality. It only exists in consciousness of the Senses, 
in the Absence of God — Mind — as Reality in the con- 
sciousness of the Soul. It appears to the Senses, but does 
not exist as a Fact in the Real — in Mind and Spirit — 
Truth is Real, and the correct association of Ideas — God 
is Spirit and the correct conception of God is Spiritual, 
and only Spirit is Real. The conception of the Senses 
is matter, unreal and error. 

"God is Life," Gen. 2: 7; Job 12: 28; Ps. 36: 6; 
Dan. 5:56; Acts 17:28; John 6:54; John 10:28; 
John 17: 3; Jude 2. God is the only Life in the Universe 
and Life is Real — Mind, Spirit, Truth — all appears other 
than God is of the Senses and is Death. The Absence of 
Life— Mind — is Death. Death is the Absence of God in 
the Consciousness of the Soul. Life is Real — Mind — 
and Death is of the Senses and Unreal. Life is Truth 
Spirit, and Death is Error — the Senses. God is Light. 
Gen. 1:3; Jeremiah 31: 35; Ps. 4:6; Ps. 27:1; Isaiah 
9: 2. Darkness is the Absence of Light. God is the only 
Light and Reality, Truth and Life. God is the all Light 
and the only Life of the Universe; and Darkness is the 
Absence of God as the Reality and Light of the Universe. 
Darkness is the Absence of God as the only Light in the 
Consciousness of the Soul. Christ is the Light of the 
World. Luke 2:32; John 1:4; 3:19; 8:12, 12:35; 
Rev. 21: 23. The Christ is the Light of the World, be- 
cause He is the Expression of God as the All Life, Truth, 

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Reality and Light of the Universe. God is Spirit. John 
4: 24; 2 Cor. 3: 17; 1 John 4: 2. Spirit is Life and the 
Absence of Spirit is Matter and Death. Matter and 
Death, therefore, is Unreal to God, and do not exist in 
the Reality and the Consciousness of God as The Spirit 
and Life of the Universe. God is Love, 1 John 4: 7-8; 
1 John 4: 16-18; 1 John 3: 10. All that exists in the mind 
of God is Love. Malice and Jealousy do not exist in the 
Consciousness of the Reality of God as the all Truth and 
Life. Malice and Jealousy are in the Sex Senses of the 
Mortal Creation, the Absence of God as the only Life, 
in the Consciousness of the Soul. 

Error— the Senses — is the Absence of Truth and does 
not exist in the Reality of God as Truth — Mind. 1 John 
4: 6; Jude 1; James 5: 20; James 2: 3-17; Mat. 27: 64; 
Eccles. 5: 6; Ps. 19: 12. There can be no Error in the 
consciousness in the presence of God. Error— the Senses — 
only exists in the consciousness of the Soul, when God as 
the only Life is Absent from the consciousness of the 
Soul; as God the Truth of the Universe, and the Reality 
of all Life comes into the consciousness of the Soul — the 
Soul has Life and the Senses — Error — Death, disappears 
from the consciousness of the Soul. Darkness is the 
Absence of Light and of Life, John 2:9; John 1:5; John 
3: 19; John 12: 25; Genesis 2: 17. In the Presence of 
God as Light there is no Darkness. The soul that is 
conscious of God as Life does not know Darkness and 
Death. Darkness and Death only exist in the conscious- 
ness of the Soul in the Absence of God as Truth and 
Life in the Soul. Evil — the Senses — is the absence of 
Good— Spirit in thought. John 3: 20; John 11: 18-23; 
Luke 16: 22; Mark 9: 39; Mat. 5: 46; Gen. 6: 5; Mat. 
9: 4; Isaiah 1: 4. 

Evil — the Senses — exists only in the Absence of 
Good — Mind and Spirit in thought. Evil cannot exist 
in the consciousness of the Soul — when God is Present as 
Good and Life in the consciousness of the Soul. The 
Real is God, as the all Life, Mind, Spirit, Truth and Life 
of the Universe. The Unreal is the Absence of God — the 
Senses — in the consciousness of the Soul, as God the all 
Life, Reality, Truth and Light of the Universe, comes 
into the Soul, it partakes of Life — hence to know God is 
Life Eternal. The Unreal only exists in consciousness, 



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when Soul is cast out from the Presence of God as the 
Reality of the Universe. God is Spirit and the Unreal 
is matter. God is Good — Mind — and the Absence of God 
is Evil — the sex senses — or the Unreal. God is Life 
and the Absence of God is Death — Sensuality, the Unreal. 
God is Light and the Absence of God is Darkness, Lust 
the Unreal. God is Truth and the Absence of God is 
Error, the Lust senses, the Unreal. Sin is the Absence of 
God as Life in the consciousness of the Soul, the Lust and 
Sex Senses. Sin is the soul coming short of the Glory of 
God, as the all Life and Reality of the Universe. Sin is 
Unreal and does not exist in the Presence and consciousness 
of God as the Life of the Universe. Sin originated in 
rebellion against God as the all Holy and Perfect Life of 
the Universe, and the Spiritual beings whom He created 
in his Image were cast out from His Presence, as the all 
Life of the Universe, for having rebelled against His 
all Perfection and Holiness. This Mortal Creation does 
not reflect God's mind, it is L T nreal to the mind and 
consciousness of God. It reflects the mind of these sin- 
ful beings, who are in rebellion against God. It reflects 
sin — the Soul being conscious of the Lust of the Flesh — 
the Senses — that state of consciousness of the Soul that 
is not in harmony with God as the All Wise Creator. Man 
was made in God's Image and was only conscious of God 
as the Reality and the Life of the Universe, until he be- 
came conscious of the Unreal, the Lust and Sex Senses. 
He only knew God — Good — he was conscious of God as 
Spirit and Life only, and God told him the moment he 
partook of Evil — the Senses — the Lust of the Flesh — 
he should know Good and Evil. Evil was the sex nature 
of the Mortal Creation — the sex senses of the Mortal 
Creation is the veil that separates the Soul made in God's 
image from God as Life, and Prevents the Soul from re- 
flecting God as Life, which is Death. The Soul became 
conscious of the Unreal — the Senses — and lost the con- 
sciousness of God as Life by the coming into the conscious- 
ness of the sex senses of the Mortal Creation. There is no 
sex in spirit Life, and no envy and jealousy there. All 
Mortal Creation is controlled by the law of sex, and 
governed by the law of jealousy, which is of the sex Senses. 
This is the Unreal, Darkness and Death. It is the Absence 
of God in the consciousness of the Soul. It does not exist 



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in the Presence of God as the Reality, Light and Life of 
the Universe. All Evil, Darkness, and Death is of the 
Sex Senses — It is the Absence of God as the All Good, 
Truth, Reality, Spirit and Life of the Universe from the 
Soul. It is the Soul being cast out from the Presence of 
God, the All Life. It is a Negative and not a Positive 
quality. Death is the absence of Life; and Darkness the 
Absence of Light, and Evil the Absence of Good, and 
Error the Absence of Truth, and the Unreal — the Senses — 
the Absence of the Real — God, Life as the All Mind and 
Spirit. 

God made man in His Image; God is Life — man had 
no inherent Life, therefore man reflected life. God is 
Truth — the correct conception of Life, therefore man 
reflected Truth, the correct conception of Life. God is 
Light, therefore Man reflected Light, God is Spirit, 
therefore man reflected Spirit. But when this man, 
whom God made in His Image became conscious of the 
Sex Senses, of the Unreal, matter, he lost the Image of 
God and ceased to reflect God as the Truth, Light, Spirit 
and Life; man ceased to have the correct conception of 
Life. He was driven out of the Garden, out of the Pres- 
ence of God, as the only Reality and Life; into the con- 
sciousness of the sensual — the Senses — the Unreal, the 
Mortal; and the carnal thoughts of the senses of the 
flesh flowing into the Soul, constituted the flaming sword 
which turned every way to separate man as a spiritual 
being from God, the only Reality, Life, Light and Truth 
of the Universe; man had no inherent Life. He only 
reflected God, the only Life, and when man lost the image 
of God he died. Man was in outer darkness, separated 
from the Presence of God, and in the consciousness of the 
Unreal, the senses, and spiritually dead. All sickness 
and disease and death exist in the Unreal — in the Sex and 
Lust Senses — in the Mortal Mind — in the absence of the 
Presence of God as Life — for the want of the consciousness 
of God as Life in the Soul. Sin and sickness are one in 
essence, without Sin there can be no sickness and dis- 
ease. God told man that the moment he touched it he 
should die — the moment the Soul became conscious of 
the Lust of the Flesh, that man should be separated in 
mind and thought from God as the only Life of the Uni- 
verse and should die. There is no sin, except in the Lust 



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of the Flesh. The serpent was Lust and Sensuality, and 
the serpent's poison is death to the Soul and to the Body. 

There is no Sin, Sickness and Death in the Presence 
of God as the All and only Life. The Soul was not con- 
scious of Evil — the Senses — until it became conscious 
of the Lust of the Flesh — the serpent sensuality. And 
then the Soul died spiritually and man was told that he 
was taken from the dust and to dust he should return. 
All disease and sickness are inherent in sin. A Soul that 
is absolutely pure, living above the Lust of the Flesh, 
in mind and thought and in the Presence of God and in 
the consciousness of God as the All Holy and Perfect 
Life, has complete power over sin and sickness and death. 
By the power of this Truth the Christ healed the Sick 
and raised the dead. 

Life is Real, Death is Unreal; Life is of and from God; 
Death is the Absence of God, as the All and Only Life. 

God and all of His Spiritual Creations is Life and 
Reality. Matter and the Mortal Creation is Death and 
Unreal. They are of the Senses, and only exist in the 
Absence of God, in the Conscious Mind and the 
Soul, as the all Life and Reality of the Universe. 

God and the Lord God in the Story of Creation and 
the Garden of Eden, as told in Genesis, are used as Terms 
to express the Presence of God as Reality, Light and 
Life, and the Absence of God as Life — Darkness and 
Death — the Unreal — the Senses. God, as used in the 
narrative, is the Divine Mind, the Light and the Life and 
the Reality of the Universe; the Lord God is the Absence 
of God as the All Light, Life and Reality of the Universe 
— the Senses. It was God — the Word — the Reality, 
Light and Life of the Universe that created all that was 
created and this creation was Real — Spirit. It was the 
Lord God that created the Unreal — Matter — the Senses — 
the consciousness of matter did not exist in the Ego of the 
Spiritual Beings that God created in His Image until 
they sinned against God as the Author of all Life, and 
then He withdrew Himself from them as Life, and they 
ceased to reflect Him as Life — they were in outer Darkness, 
and dead spiritually — conscious of matter and Death 
— the Sex and Lust senses — the Unreal, which the Lord 
God had created. The Lord God is the Absence of 
God as Life — the Senses. This Unreal state of con- 



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sciousness came into existence through the rebellion of the 
Spiritual Beings whom God created in His Image, and 
this Unreal state of consciousness existed when God 
created Man in His Image. The Creation of the Lord 
God — the Unreal — the sex senses of the Flesh — the Ab- 
sence of God in consciousness, existed when God created 
man in His Image, and the man that God created in 
His Image was told not to eat of this state of consciousness, 
not to indulge the senses — the Lust of the Flesh — but to 
overcome it, and by yielding to it, he partook of darkness 
and death, and was cast out from the Presence of God as 
Life, and ceased to reflect God as Life. 

It was God and not the Lord God, who said, "Let 
there be Light and there was Light." It was the Presence 
and the Expression of God as the All Reality and Light 
of the Universe that spoke Light and Life into existence. 
It was God not the Lord God who said, "Let us make 
man in our Image, and likeness/' And it was God and 
not the Lord God who created man in God's Image; 
1 Gen. 26: 27. It was God the Reality and Life of the 
Universe — the Divine Mind and not the Lord God — 
the Senses — the Absence of God as Life, that said, "Ye 
shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it lest ye die." 
It was the Divine Mind that said, "Ye shall not indulge 
in the Lust of the Flesh, but if you do you shall die" 
Gen. 3: 3. The serpent said, "That it was God," the 
All Reality and Life — the Divine Mind, and not the Lord 
God — the absense of God, as Life, the Unreal — Senses — 
"that doth know that in a day ye eat thereof then your 
eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing 
good— Spirit— and Evil — the Senses;" Gen. 3:4. It was 
God the Presence of the All Life — the Divine Mind, and 
not the Lord God — the Absence of the All Life — the 
Senses — who pronounced His Creation "Good and very 
Good" — Spiritual and very Spiritual. It was God the 
All Life and Mind that blessed man that He had made 
in His Image and told him to be Fruitful and to bring 
forth Spiritual fruit unto the Father of Life and Spirit 
and to multiply and increase spiritually until man should 
refill and subdue the earth — the Senses — the flesh, 
Darkness and Death, with Light and Life of the Father, 
as the All Light and Life, until the Real, the Spiritual, 
should abolish the Unreal — the Senses— from conscious- 



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ness. It was God, the Divine Mind and not the Lord 
God, who commanded Man that he had created in His 
Image to increase spiritually and overcome sin — the 
Senses — that then existed. 

It was the Lord God — the Absence of God — the 
Divine Mind, as the All Life — that created matter, the 
Unreal — Gen. 2: 5. It was the Lord God, the Absence 
of God, as the All Life and Reality, and not the Presence 
of God, as the All Life, that made Mortal man, Adam 
and Eve, the Sex and Lust Senses of the Flesh — Gen. 2: 7. 
It was the Lord God and not God, that created the 
Mortal Creation, Sex — Gen. 2:9. It was the Lord God 
and not God that said, "It was not good for Mortal 
man to be alone'' — the carnal needed the carnal — Gen. 
2: 18. It was the Lord God and not God, that caused 
a deep sleep to fall on Adam, the Mortal man — the Sex 
Senses of the carnal man. It was the Lord God and not 
God that created the serpent in the Garden — the Lust 
and Sex Senses of the Flesh — Gen. 3:1. It was the 
Absence of God as the All Reality, Light and Life that 
created the serpent in the Garden, and His Absence from 
the consciousness of the Souls of Men — has created the 
serpent in the Souls of Men in all days. It was the 
voice of the Lord God and not the voice of God, that 
Adam and Eve heard in the Garden, after they had eaten 
of the forbidden fruit — Gen. 3:8. It was the Absence 
of God as All Reality and Light and Life and Truth, 
withdrawing Himself from their Souls as Life, that 
caused Adam and Eve to hide themselves from the 
Lord God — to seek Darkness and Death. It was the 
consciousness in the Soul that God was withdrawing 
Himself as the Light and Life from the Soul that made 
the Soul conscious of Darkness and Death. When God 
was manifested in the Soul as Life, the Soul had the 
correct conception of God as Life. When God was with- 
drawn from the Soul as Life the Soul worshipped the senses 
as gods. And in all days as men have indulged the Lust 
of the Flesh, the serpent — Sin — they have felt God with- 
drawing Himself from their Souls as Life; and have heard 
the voice of the Lord God — the Absence of God as Life 
from their Souls speaking unto them/and their Souls have 
wandered in outer Darkness and Death, ceasing to reflect 
God as the only Life, and have worshipped the Senses as 



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Death. It was the Lord God and not God — the Absence 
of God in the Life of the Soul — that called unto Adam and 
Eve to answer for their sins. It was the Absence of God 
as Life in the Soul that caused them to realize that they 
were dead spiritually. When their Souls ceased to reflect 
God as the only Life, they were conscious of Death — 
Gen. 3: 9-13. It was the Lord God and not God that 
cursed the serpent and the earth, sin and the flesh, and 
put enmity between the woman and the serpent; and 
the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, and 
said unto the woman, "She should bring forth children 
in sorrow" and unto Adam that the ground (flesh) was 
"cursed for his sake; and unto dust he should return." 
Gen. 3: 4-19. It was the Lord God, the Absence of God, 
as Life in the Soul as the result of Sin, that pronounced 
the verdict of Darkness and Death upon man. It was 
the Lord God — the Absence of God, as the All Life in the 
consciousness of the Soul, and not God the All Life in the 
Presence of the Soul, that turned them out of the Garden 
of Eden— from the Presence of God as Life into a state 
of the Senses— where Soul ceased to reflect God as the 
only Life. It was the Lord God — the Absence of the 
Presence of God as the All Life in the Soul — that placed 
the flaming sword at the Garden — Lust of the Flesh, 
which turned every way, and the cherubim (the Sex and 
Lust Senses) at the East of the Garden to keep man from 
the Tree of Life, from the conscious realization of God as 
Life; and not God the ever Present and all Life — Gen. 
3:23-24. 

Since the creation of the Unreal, the Sex and Lust 
of the Flesh — as result of Sin, all Mortal creation has 
travailed and mourned, and waited for the day of de- 
liverance — from the Sex Senses — waiteth for the day when 
the Father shall again manifest Himself as the All Reality 
and Life. Since rebellion and sin, when God withdrew 
Himself as Life and Reality — Darkness, Death and the 
Unreal have hovered over the Souls of men spiritually 
dead — the serpent — sex — the lust of the flesh has poured 
its poison into the Souls of men and they are unconscious 
of God as Life — do not reflect Him as the only life. The 
Christ came to call them back to Life from the Unreal 
to the Real, from outer darkness to the Presence of God 
as Life. His Church is composed of souls that have been 



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called back to Life — to the Presence of God as Life. The 
word church comes from the Greek term Ecclessia — to 
call out — the Souls that have been called out from Dark- 
ness and spiritual death of the Senses to the Light and Life 
of Spirit, into the Presence of God as the only Life, con- 
stitutes the Church. They are elected — they are the "elect" 
— they have been called out from the Unreal — the Senses 
— Death, to the Real — Life — Spirit — and that old ser- 
pent, the lust of the flesh, "that would deceive the very 
elect if it were possible," would call these souls back from 
the Presence of God as Light and Life into outer darkness 
and death of the Senses of the Flesh. The Soul that has 
been called out from this Night of Darkness and Death 
of the Unreal into the Presence of God as the All Reality 
and Life lives in the conscious realization of God as Life, 
and has complete power over the serpent, lust, sin, sick- 
ness and death. Such a Soul is of the seed of Abraham, 
Isaac and Jacob — is a Christian. The Christ said "In 
my name ye shall tread upon serpents, (carnal thoughts) 
heal the sick and raise the dead." In His name the 
Unreal — the Senses — Darkness and Death surrender 
to the Real — Spirit — Light and Life, to God — the Di- 
vine Mind — the only Life. 

The Heavens and the Earth shall pass away — the 
Earth that the Lord God cursed — the Flesh — the 
dominion of Sex — the consciousness of the Soul 
that God as the All Life is Absent from the Soul 
as Life. The consciousness of the serpent and matter — 
the Unreal shall cease; and we shall behold a "New 
Heaven and a New Earth" — a Spiritual Heaven and a 
Spiritual Earth— Spirit and Life — the consciousness of 
the Presence of God as the All Life in the Soul as Life. 
The Real — Spirit and Life — shall be ushered in and the 
Unreal — Senses — matter and death — the Sex Senses — 
shall be banished from consciousness of the Soul. God 
as the All Mind and Life shall be Present in the Soul as 
Life, and not the Lord God — the Absence of God as the 
All Light and Mind form the Soul. The Creation of the 
Lord God shall pass away — Sex — the Senses — that which 
appears and is not Real, and the creation of God, that 
which is Real — Spirit and Life, shall be ushered in as Eter- 
nal Day, and there is no Sex and Death in that land of 
Life. The Unreal — the Senses — the Consciousness of 



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Sin — Sex — sickness, matter and death in the Soul, cannot 
exist where the Reality of God as the All Life and Light 
is Present in the Consciousness of the Soul. The Unreal 
gives way to the All Life. Error is the Absence of Truth; 
Darkness is the Absence of Light; Death is the Absence 
of Life; Sin — the Serpent — can only exist in the Conscious- 
ness of Soul, in the Absence of God as the All Holy and 
Perfect Life — from the Soul. 

Man has not any inherent Life. But in the Presence 
of God — man reflects God— the All Life. The Serpent — 
Lust — is the veil that separates man from the Presence of 
God — the All Life — which is Spiritual Death. Truth is 
Reality and the correct association of Ideas. When the 
Serpent is absent from the Consciousness of the Soul 
man realizes God as Life and conceives God as Mind — 
Spirit and Life. When the Serpent is present in the 
Consciousness of the Soul, man is conscious of the senses 
as Death and conceives the senses to be real and worships 
them as gods— as Death. This is the incorrect association 
of Ideas. It is the conception of Life in matter — in the 
senses — The misconception of the Unreal for the Real — 
the senses for Spirit. 



CHAPTER II. 
CREATION. 

Creation is of dual nature — Spiritual and Physical. 
There is a mental and a physical ; a spiritual and material 
man, a physical and a metaphysical man. The spiritual 
man is immortal; the physical man is mortal; the spirit- 
ual man is made in God's image; and the physical man 
is contrary to and the opposite of the spiritual man. The 
spiritual man cannot know the material universe. Neither 
can the material man know the spiritual universe. The 
physical and material man has his physical universe. 
The physical and material man has his physical senses by 
which he knows and realizes the physical universe — the 
senses of touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste. Likewise, 
the spiritual man has his spiritual senses through which 
he knows, understands and realizes the spiritual universe. 
In reality there is but one man, and he is spiritual, and 
one Creation and that is spiritual. The physical man and 
Creation is the result of sin. The Absence of the real in 
mind. 

It is impossible for the spiritual man to understand, 
comprehend or know the physical and material universe 
through the spiritual senses. Likewise, it is impossible 
for the physical and meterial man to know, comprehend 
and understand the spiritual universe through the 
physical senses. The physical universe is controlled by 
sex, and there is no sex in spirit. 

The spiritual and the physical creations — or rather 
the spiritual and physical worlds, for each is separate and 
distinct and the physical is the manifestation of the 
spiritual, or to be more exact, the like of the spiritual, 
constitute the dual creation or dual existence. To be 
more exact, the spiritual universe is selfexistant, or what 
the scholastic world calls "God," and is the Creator — by 
the scholastic world we mean man-made theology. The 
physical universe is the product of the energizing force of 
the spiritual universe and is the creature. In other words, 
the spiritual world is the Creator and immortal, the 

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material universe is the creature and is mortal. The 
physical universe exists for the want of spirit in mind 
and thought. 

The physical man is a part of the material universe 
and the spiritual man is a part of the spiritual universe. 
Therefore, the spiritual man is immortal and the physical 
is mortal. When the spiritual universe is unfolded into 
complete consciousness, the material universe will cease 
to exist in consciousness. 

It is with this dual existence or creation that the 
Bible deals. The Book includes both the physical and 
the spiritual man. From Genesis to Revelation it deals 
with the story of the spiritual and physical nature of 
man. The infidel and the agnostic and the atheist says 
he does not believe in the Bible because he cannot un- 
derstand it; the theologian instead of admitting that 
the charge that the unbeliever makes is the strongest 
argument in favor of its divine authenticity, under- 
takes to answer the charge by showing that the Bible is 
comprehensible. The unbeliever makes an issue, but 
the theologian does not join issue correctly with him. 
There are two minds — the innate or the spiritual mind 
and the educated or physical mind. The Spiritual or 
Innate cannot comprehend physical things; neither can 
the educated or material mind comprehend spiritual 
things. Part of the Bible is addressed to man's spiritual 
mind and cannot be comprehended or understood by 
man's material or educated mind. The other part of the 
Bible is addressed to man's physical nature and is a judg- 
ment of condemnation of his educated and physical 
mind — or as Paul puts it, his carnal mind, which is foreign 
to his spiritual mind and nature. 

Without this dual conception of the Bible and the 
correct conception of the dual nature of man there can 
be no correct understanding of man's spiritual and 
material nature and of the Bible, which is a true picture 
of both his physical and spiritual natures. 

As man comes into the consciousness of his Ego — 
real self— he reflects the image of God — and the material 
universe become unreal to him. The Innate or Spiritual 
is the the only real mind. 

Educated mind is the mind of the senses, and is 
controlled by sex, and there is no sex in soul or real life. 



CHAPTER III. 
THE FALL OF MAN. 

In the beginning we are told that God created the 
heavens and the earth. Before the creation of the ma- 
terial universe matter did not exist. All existence was 
spiritual. Matter, therefore, is the creature and the 
spiritual universe the Creator. But since the Creation the 
spiritual and the material universe have existed as facts. 
The material creation came into existence as the result 
of sin, and is controlled by sex, which separates the man 
made in God's image from God and the spiritual universe. 

In the story of creation we are told — in the allegori- 
cal language and in imaginative terms of the Oriental 
tongue and mind — how God — the Spiritual Universe — 
created something out of nothing; how the Spiritual 
Universe produced the material universe. This material 
universe is the absence of God's mind in consciousness. 

Then after the narrative of the Creation of the 
material universe we have the story told to us, in Oriental 
terms and language, in detail, of the creation of the 
animal kingdom — man being a part thereof, but the 
highest type of same. It is not material whether God 
created the universe immediately or was billions of 
years in completing the Creation. 

We are told in the narrative of the creation of the 
animal kingdom that God created man out of the "dust 
of the earth" and we are told that "Unto dust he must 
return." That is, out of the chemical elements of the 
material universe the physical man was produced with 
the seeds of decay and death in the physical man and 
unto these chemical elements of the material universe 
after dissolution from the spiritual man he must return 
lifeless. That is, the physical man must die. 

In this story of Creation the narrative tells us, that 
after God — the All Wise Mental and Spiritual Universe 

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— Being — had created the material and physical man out 
of the chemical elements of the material universe — He 
breathed into him the breath of life. But man, as the 
image of God, existed before he became conscious of 
matter. 

Here is where the spiritual and physical natures of 
man united and he became a living soul — the Story tells 
us that here is where the union of the spiritual and physical 
man was consummated. Dissolution of this consumma- 
tion of the spiritual and material man is what we call 
death; the physical man returns to the chemical ele- 
ments of the earth from which he was made, and the 
spiritual man returns to the spiritual universe free from 
his bondage to the physical man. 

We are told in the narrative of Creation that God 
created man in His own image. That is, that the spiritual 
life which was breathed into man became a living soul. 
The Spirit was the real man. 

The Biblical story tells us that God created Adam 
and Eve and placed them in the Garden of Eden where 
was the apple which was the forbidden fruit and they 
were not to eat thereof. The narrative tells us that the 
moment they ate of this fruit they would know good from 
evil. It was the "forbidden fruit/' so the story tells us. 

The dogmatic theological world has handed this 
down to the generations of men as literal history. The 
theologians have preached that there was a literal apple 
which grew upon a literal tree in a literal Garden of Eden 
and this apple was to test man's obedience to God's 
command. The Biblical history reads: "And the Lord 
God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden 
to dress it and to keep it, and the Lord God commanded 
the man, saying: 'Of every tree of the Garden, thou 
may est freely eat; but of the tree of knowledge of good 
and evil, thou shall not eat of it; for in the day that 
thou eatest thereof thou shall surely die.' And the Lord 
God said: 'It is not good that man should be alone; I 
will make him an helpmeet for him." God; good — 
spirit created man — who is spirit — the Lord God; here 
is the voice of mortal man and this voice drove him out 
of the Garden of Spirit into the land of the senses. 

"And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon 
Adam and he slept; and he took one of his ribs and closed 



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up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib which the Lord 
God took from man, made he a woman, and brought her 
unto the man. And Adam said: This is now bone of my 
bone, flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman be- 
cause she was taken out of Man. Therefore, shall a man 
leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his 
wife; and they shall be one flesh. This was the voice of 
mortal man speaking to the soul. And they were both 
naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. 

"Now, the serpent was more subtle than any beast 
of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said 
unto the woman: Yea, God hath said, ye shall not eat 
of every tree of the Garden. And the woman said unto 
the serpent: We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the 
Garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst 
of the Garden God has said: Ye shall not eat of it; 
neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent 
said unto the woman: Ye shall not surely die, for God 
doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes 
shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods knowing good and 
evil/' "And when the woman saw that the tree was good 
for food, and that is was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree 
to be desired to make one wise, and she took the fruit 
thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband 
with her, and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were 
opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they 
sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons." 
Lust — the Serpent is more subtle than any other faculty 
of mortal mind. 

Thus is recorded in parts of the second and third 
chapters of Genesis in Oriental style the allegory which 
relates the first overcoming of the spiritual man by the 
physical man and which theologians commonly call 
the Fall of man, and during the generations of men they have 
misunderstood it and erroneously interpreted it to the sons 
of men. This allegory is told in the literary style of the 
time, place and people, and relates the great moral of the 
struggle and war between the physical and spiritual man. 
The story says: "Therefore, a man shall leave his father 
and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they 
shall be one flesh." It does not say they shall be one spirit, 
but one flesh. The truth intended to be conveyed by the 
story being this: That in the union of the male and the 



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female you have the physical unit. That the sexual rela- 
tion between sexes is the most binding tie of the physical 
creation and by means of sexual relations new physical 
life is generated and produced. The story continues, 
"and they were both naked — the man and his wife — and 
they were not ashamed" that is, the spiritual man had not 
been overcome by the physical man because they had not 
had sexual realtions. In thought the soul was pure. 
("The fall of man" as termed by the theologian had not 
yet taken place). But in the seventh verse of the third 
chapter of Genesis we have the Fall of man as termed by 
the theologians complete: "And the eyes of them both 
were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and 
they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves 
aprons." In the twenty-fifth verse of the second chapter 
of Genesis they "were naked and not ashamed"— sexual 
relations had not taken place between them. The 
spiritual man had not been overcome by the physical man. 
They became one in flesh as a result of sin. 

In the seventh verse of the third chapter of Genesis, 
we are told — "and the eyes of them both were opened 
and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig 
leaves together and made themselves aprons." Here 
sexual relations had taken place between Adam and Eve — 
the spiritual man had been overcome by the physical 
man. "The Fall of man," as termed by scholasticism 
was now complete. The spiritual man was now protesting 
against the depravity of the physical man. Their flesh 
had "now been made one." But their spiritual natures 
rebelled, for there was no spiritual union there. "The 
flesh," which the scholastic theology sacriligiously for 
centuries has been attempting to consecrate at the altar, 
"had been made one" and their spiritual natures were 
protesting against the power of the flesh. 

And the story continues: "And they heard the voice 
of the Lord God walking in the Garden in the cool of the 
day; and Adam and Eve hid themselves from the pres- 
ence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the Garden. 
And the Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him: 
Where art thou? And he said: I heard thy voice in the 
Garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I 
hid myself. And He said : Who told thee that thou was 
naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded 



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thee that thou shouldst not eat? And the man said: 
The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave 
me of the tree and I did eat. And the Lord God said unto 
the woman : What is this that thou hast done? And the 
woman said: The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. 
And the Lord God said unto the serpent: Because thou 
hast done this thou art cursed above all cattle, and above 
every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, 
and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life, and I will 
put enmity between thee and the woman, and between 
thy seed and her seed ; it shall bruise thy head, and thou 
shall bruise his heel." It is the Lord God, mortal mind 
that is speaking to the soul and not God, the Divine mind. 
It was the mortal mind that turned the soul out of the 
Garden — the Lust senses and not the Divine mind. 

The Serpent in this allegory, of course, represents 
Eve's sexual passion. The Oriental sytle of expression 
and figurative language took the most poisonous of all 
the reptile creation to convey the idea of the anti-spiritual 
nature of the material man and the means of generation 
and perpetuation of the physical man; namely, sexual 
passion. 

But the story continues: "Unto the woman He said 
I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; 
in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children; and thy desire 
shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And 
unto Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened unto 
the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which 
I commanded thee, saying: Thou shalt not eat of it: 
cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat 
of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall 
it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat of the herb of 
the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, 
till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou 
taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." 
There was not any propagation in the flesh until the man 
made in God's image partook of sin. 

We notice here in this story that immediately after 
the "fall" as preached by the theologians — but, as a matter 
of fact, immediately after they had sexual relations — God 
said unto the woman: "I will greatly multiply thy sorrow 
and thy conception." The conception and birth of the 
physical man is immediately connected with the union of 



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their flesh. And God also said unto Eve: "In sorrow 
thou shalt bring forth children/' Here we have in Holy 
Writ, God pronouncing his wrath upon the physical 
birth. The very thing that theologians during the cen- 
turies have been trying to make sacred at the altar — the 
physical marriage of the sexes for the purpose of sexual 
indulgence — God Almighty has pronounced His wrath 
upon. The physical birth which theologians have at- 
tempted to make holy, God Almighty has declared to be 
anti-spiritual and has issued His decree to the mothers of 
humanity for the sin of the physical conception — "Thou 
shalt bring forth children in sorrow." All conception 
originally was intended to have been spiritual. There was 
not any carnal conception until after sin touched the soul 
in mind and thought. 

Every ache and every pain of the mother in child 
birth is according to the immutable law of God's decree 
and is the everlasting testimony of the sinful nature of 
the physical conception and birth of the material man. 

The increase that the man made in God's image was 
commanded to bring forth, was a spiritual increase, and 
the fruit was spiritual fruit — and the earth that he was 
commanded to refill and subdue was the flesh. Sin existed 
at the time God made man in His image and God com- 
manded man to overcome this sin and subdue the earth — 
the flesh and not to yield to it. 



CHAPTER IV. 
THE GARDEN OF EDEN. 

There is nothing holy as to the physical union of the 
sexes and there is not anything sacred about the physical 
birth— and all the teachings of the rationalist and scholas- 
tic theology cannot make this true. The Divinity of the 
very Christ depends upon the anti-spiritual nature and 
the unholiness of the union of the sexes — physical con- 
ception and material birth — as we shall hereinafter show. 

But let us follow the Story of the Garden to its con- 
clusion: "And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast 
hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of 
the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, thou shalt 
not eat of it; cursed is the ground — the flesh — for thy 
sake ; in sorrow shall thou eat of it all the days of thy life ; 
thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and 
thou shalt eat of the herb of the field ; in the sweat of thy 
face shalt thou eat bread, till thoure turn unto the ground/ ' 
Man needed no material food until sin touched the soul ; 
"for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art and unto 
dust shalt thou return." As soon as man sinned he need- 
ed material food to feed the sex faculties. 

Adam here "hearkened" unto the voice of his wife 
and ate of the forbidden fruit. In other words, he yielded 
to Eve's sexual influence over him and had sexual rela- 
tions with her. "The voice" was her sexual power and the 
"forbidden fruit" was sexual relations. The female is 
the negative and drawing force in the mortal creation — 
Eve tempted Adam — and as a penalty for having yielded 
to the carnal mind and the material creation Adam is told 
that he was taken from the dust and to dust of the earth 
he should return. Of course, it is the physical man that God 
declares shall return to the "dust," not the spiritual man 
made in God's image. It was the physical man that had 
sinned and it was the physical man that must return to 

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dust. The spiritual man made in God's image, when He 
breathed the breath of life into the physical man, pro- 
tested, and rebelled against every violation of the spiritual 
law when the physical man sinned in the sexual realtion 
and when Adam and Eve — the first man the first woman — 
knew each other sexually. And the spiritual man has 
been protesting and rebelling against the sexual relation by 
which the material man is conceived and brought forth 
during all the generations of men and will unto the 
end of time. The spiritual man and the mortal man is 
represented in two voices, God and Lord God. Because 
the material man and his conception and birth are anti- 
spiritual and in violation of every spiritual law — therefore, 
he is mortal and must return to dust. The spiritual man 
is the immediate creation of the great "I Am." I am, the 
Ego in us is, a part of the great "I Am, "and made in God's 
own image, and when individualized into an individuality 
can never die. Upon the statement of these two truths — 
the dual creation of the material and the spiritual man — 
depends the truth of the Immaculate and supernatural 
Conception — the Divinity of Christ, and the truth of the 
Christian system. 

In the twenty-fifth verse, second chapter of Genesis, 
we are told: "And they were both naked — the man and 
his wife — and they were not ashamed." We observe that 
this was before they partook of the forbidden fruit — 
before the spiritual man had yielded to the fleshly man. 
Now, the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the 
field — which the Lord God had made — and he said unto 
the woman: "Yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of 
every tree of the Garden"— of course, the serpent here 
spoken of was the sexual passion of the woman; and the 
serpent is used as the most poisonous of the reptile crea- 
tion to convey the idea of the poisonous and deadly na- 
ture of the material creation as represented in sexual pas- 
sion by which the animal kingdom of the material crea- 
tion is generated and perpetuated. The carnal mind 
spoke to Eve here, as the Lord God. The Divine mind 
spoke to her as God — Good — Spirit — Life, and told her 
if she eat of it she should die. These two minds are with- 
in us all. One is death and the other is life. Genesis, 
third chapter and second verse: "And the woman said 
unto the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees of 



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the Garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the 
midst of the Garden. God hath said, ye shall not eat of 
it lest ye die." Here, in this verse, we are told that the 
material creation has inherently the seeds of death in it. 
It is anti-spiritual and must die. Spirit is life — matter is 
death. The moment the first man and the first woman ate 
of or touched the fruit of this tree — i. e., had sexual 
relations — the means whereby the physical man is 
generated — they were one and did become conscious of 
the nature of the conflict between the spiritual and the 
material man; and, that the spiritual man is life — and that 
the physical man is death; they knew the difference be- 
tween the Spirit and matter and that Spirit is life and that 
matter is death. "And the serpent said unto the woman, 
ye shall not surely die, for God doth know that in the day 
that ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be open and ye 
shall be as God, knowing good and evil." Here we have 
the woman's sexual passion; represented by the serpent 
speaking to her through her physcial nature and flesh 
overcoming the Spirit; and every mother from the first 
woman has had the serpent to speak to her and has felt 
the influence of the deadly poison of the fleshy nature over 
the spiritual nature and will until the end of time. Good 
and evil is the soul which was made in God's image be- 
coming conscious of the sex senses. "And when the woman 
saw that the tree was good for food and that is was pleasant 
to the eyes and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she 
took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also unto her 
husband, who was with her, and he did eat." The fruit 
of the tree which was pleasant to the eyes of the woman 
was the influence of the male over the female sexually. 
The first man had aroused the sexual passion of the first 
woman. And the "tree that she desired tamake one wise" 
— was her desire to know the man sexually. It was the 
carnal mind asserting its power over the soul. "And the 
eyes of them both were opened and they knew that they 
were naked" — i. e., their spiritual eyes had been opened 
to the anti-spiritual nature of the material creation. 
The soul was now conscious of the lust senses of the flesh — 
and had lost the image of God — they knew the spiritual 
man is ever crying out against the physical consciousness of 
the conflict between the two. They realized the immortal 
nature of the spiritual man and the mortal nature of the 



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physical man and that the means whereby the physical 
man is conceived is anti-spiritual. "And they sewed fig 
leaves together and made themselves aprons." That is, 
their spiritual natures being conscious of the sinfulness of 
their physical natures they attempted to hide their physi- 
cal nature and flee from it — which man has been attempt- 
ing to do from that day until this — and will, until the end 
of time. The spiritual man is ever crying out against the 
physical man and is ever struggling to be freed from carnal 
bondage — this bondage is represented by the law of the 
sexes through which the physical man is conceived and 
generated. "Adam called his wife's name Eve because she 
was the mother of all living." Here woman was given a 
name because she had become and was to become the 
means by which the physical man in all ages was to be 
generated and brought forth. She was to be the power by 
which the mortal is propagated. We here see that the 
whole story as to the beginning and perpetuation of the 
physical man is one of sexual law and of the sinful nature 
of the relations between the sexes by which the physical 
man is conceived and brought forth. The means whereby 
the physical man is conceived is anti-spiritual therefore he 
is mortal and must die — but the spiritual man whom God 
created in His own image and who existed in God's mind 
before there was a physical man and a physical woman to 
generate a physical man is a different man from the ma- 
terial man born of woman and is immortal. But he tasted 
death by becoming conscious of the sex of the mortal 
creation. 

They were naked — and they knew they were naked. 
Their spiritual natures were conscious of the sinfulness 
of their fleshly natures after they had gratified their sexual 
lust and they sought to cover up and hide the sins of the 
flesh as man has been doing in all ages and will unto the 
end of time. "And the Lord God said, Behold, the man 
is become as one of us, to know good and evil : and now, 
lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, 
and eat, and live forever: therefore, the Lord God sent 
him forth from the Garden of Eden, to till the ground 
from whence he was taken." It was the Lord God, 
mortal mind, and not God — -the Divine mind — that 
turned the soul out of the Garden. We see here after 
the first woman and first man had known each other sex- 



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ually, they knew the difference between good and evil — 
the difference between the spiritual and material worlds — 
between life and death — between mortality and immortal- 
ity. They were conscious of their dual creation, that they 
had spiritual and material natures — that they were im- 
mortal and mortal. In their sexual relations they had 
yielded to their physical natures and partaken of the seeds 
of death and thereby knew the difference between good 
and evil. He had eaten of the "tree of death"; and the 
"tree of life" here referred to, of which he could partake 
of and "live forever" — was his spiritual nature. The 
Christ within man is the tree of life. "He could put forth 
his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live 
forever." His carnal nature is the tree of death — his 
spiritual nature is the tree of life — the Christ within the 
soul. "Therefore, the Lord God sent him forth from the 
Garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was 
taken." The mortal mind sent the soul into the sex senses 
of the flesh and it died. We here see that after the first 
man and first woman had yielded to their fleshly natures 
through the sexual relations, they were driven out of the 
Garden to till the ground from whence they came. That 
is, the divine decree was issued — that as the physical 
man was made from the dust of the earth, from matter 
which is anti-spiritual with the seeds of death in it, that 
unto dust he must return. So he drove "out the man and 
he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden a cherubim 
and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the 
way of the tree of life." The Garden of Eden here means 
spiritual happiness — the Life of the soul made in God's 
image — the correct and proper relation of the spiritual 
man made by God and in God's image, before man yielded 
to the lust of physical man and became conscious of his 
dual creation and the enmity existing between the spiritual 
and the physical man and their absolute conflict with each 
other. After he became conscious of his physical and 
spiritual natures he realized that his spiritual nature was 
not in absolute union with his Maker, in whose image he 
was made — while his spiritual nature was in bondage to 
his physical nature — and he could not remain in a state 
of joy, peace, and happiness, conscious of both his spir- 
itual and physical natures — one made in God's image, 
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him from a state of peace and happiness — and drove 
him out of the Garden of Eden. Drove the soul into sense 
consciousness — where man thought carnal thoughts. 
The cherubim here — which was placed east of the Garden 
of Eden — is man's fleshly nature which keeps him from en- 
joying his spiritual state of peace — life — and happiness 
with his Maker. The Garden of Eden represents man's 
spiritual state of happiness and the life of the soul before 
he was conscious of his fleshly nature. The cherubim rep- 
resents his fleshly nature — carnal thoughts — after he — the 
soul — became conscious of it through his sexual relations 
and to which he is in bondage and will be as long as the 
spiritual man and the fleshly man exist in their- dual 
natures. When the fleshly man returns to dust, from which 
he was taken, and the spiritual man is freed from bondage 
to the fleshly man, the Garden of Eden will exist again; 
man will enjoy his state of peace and happiness in unison 
with his Maker, Who made him in His own image. "And 
He placed a flaming sword which turned every way to 
keep the way of the tree of life." The flaming sword here 
is man's carnal mind which is ever at enmity with God and 
the spiritual man— "it turns every way" — to keep the 
spiritual man away from his Maker — to keep the spiritual 
man from enjoying his full state of spiritual peace and 
happiness; to keep the spiritual man from enjoying full 
and complete spiritual life. It is that ever present devil 
which scholasticism has been theorizing on throughout 
the ages and which represents the conflict between the 
spiritual and the fleshly man. 

The cherubim and the flaming sword are the carnal 
thoughts of the lust and sex senses of mortal man, which 
turned the soul out from the image of God. 



CHAPTER V. 
THE FLAMING SWORD. 

This flaming sword — the carnal desires of the sex — 
and lust senses of mortal man which turns every way has 
been ever present in man's fleshly nature from the time of 
the first man, and will until the last man — and man has 
been conscious of the presence of this flaming sword in 
the anti-spiritual nature of his carnal mind since the first 
man had sexual realtions with the first woman, and will 
unto the end of time. ' This mortal man — this carnal mind; 
this fleshly nature is ever at war with the spiritual man 
and trying to shut off the life 'of the spiritual man, try- 
ing to kill and destroy the spiritual man. It is the mortal 
in conflict with the immortal — the material man in con- 
flict with the spiritual man — hell in conflict with heaven — 
the devil with God. The fleshly man died on the cross — 
the spiritual man lived, was resurrected and lives forever 
and this is redemption; this is salvation — freeing the 
spiritual man from bondage to the fleshly man and let- 
ting the spiritual man re-enter his state of peace and hap- 
piness and life in union with the God who made him in 
His own image; returning to the Garden of Eden — to his 
spiritual state — is man's heaven. The destruction of the 
flaming sword which is the consciousness of the physical 
man over the spiritual man — the freeing of the spiritual 
man from the bondage of the physical man is salvation. 
The physical man died on the cross — the spiritual man 
liveth on — he is immortal and can never die. 

Without the lav/ of these two creations — the mor- 
tal and the immortal, the spiritual and material — being 
understood and comprehended, it is impossible to un- 
derstand and comprehend the Bible. Part of the Book is 
addressed to the material man and his physical senses. 
The other part of it is addressed to the spiritual man and 
his spiritual senses. The physical man cannot understand 

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or comprehend with his physical senses and carnal mind 
that which is addressed to the spiritual man and his 
spiritual senses. Neither can that be understood, com- 
prehended and appreciated by the spiritual man which is 
addressed to the physical man and his physical senses. 

Not to recognize this dual creation is the fatal error 
of both the materialist and the spiritualist. 

There is a dual creation — spiritual and material — 
they are separate and distinct creations and yet they co- 
ordinate, and upon this fact the truth of the Bible de- 
pends as a revelation to man. 

This Material Creation only exists in the Absence of 
the Consciousness of the Spiritual. There will be a New 
Earth: When the Soul returns to the Garden of Eden — 
for in perfect Spirit Life — there is no materiality. 



CHAPTER VI. 
THE PHYSICAL AND THE SPIRITUAL MAN. 

To prove that the Bible is a revelation from God unto 
man, we have only to study man to establish the proof. 
We do not have to study dogmatic and scholastic theology. 
We have only to study man to establish the truth of the 
fact that man is a dual creature and there is a dual crea- 
tion. We have only to study man to establish the truth 
of the fact. The Bible is essentially a human and a 
spiritual book — it deals with the physical man; passes 
judgment upon him; condemns him; and assigns him 
to the grave. It deals with the spiritual man — declares 
him to have been made in God's image. It treats him as 
a child of God and declares that he is immortal and can 
never die. As Saint Paul puts it in the eight chapter of 
Romans: "There is therefore now no condemnation to 
them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the 
flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of 
life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of 
sin and death, (free from sex of the mortal creation.) For 
what the law could not do in that it was weak through the 
flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of the sin- 
ful flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh. That the 
righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk 
not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are 
after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they 
that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to 
be carnally-minded is death ; but to be spiritually minded 
is life and peace; because the carnal mind is at enmity 
against God ; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither 
indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot 
please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, 
if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any 
man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none His." 

Second Corinthians, 10 3: 4: "For though we walk 

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in the flesh we do not war after the flesh. For the weapons 
of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God 
to the pulling down of strongholds." First Corinthians, 
9-11: "If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a 
great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?" Hebrews, 
7, 15-16: "And it is yet far more evident; for that after 
the similitude Melchiszedek there ariseth another priest, 
who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, 
but after the power of an endless life." 

The Apostle Paul seemed to have had a clearer 
conception of the dual creation of the carnal and spirit- 
ual man than any other of the Biblical writers. But 
as a matter of fact, the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, 
is a story of this dual creation and the conflict between 
them. Moses' teachings are filled with this doctrine. 
In Genesis, as we have seen, he gives us the story of the 
dual creation and the yielding of the spiritual man to the 
physical man through the evil power of the fleshly man. 
After giving us this story, Moses then treats of the physi- 
cal man in his physical nature and the spiritual man in his 
spiritual nature. Moses' writings are replete with the 
doctrine of the dual creation. He gave the best hygienic 
laws to man of all the ages for the treatment and preserva- 
tion of the physical man. No human science has ever 
been able to approach or excel his teachings on hygienic 
law. He likewise pictured the power and the glory of the 
spiritual man made in God's image. This same doctrine 
of the dual creation is taught *>y the Prophets. The Bible 
is a book of figures and allegories. Everything in it repre- 
sents some great spiritual or physical truth. Every char- 
acter represents some idea of the spiritual or material 
universe and the law which governs our spiritual and ma- 
terial natures. The Jew as a race represents the coming 
of the Christ. "Jesus" was the name of the man; "Christ" 
was the name of the spiritual individuality — the perfect 
conception of God — that is, the perfect spiritual concep- 
tion of spirit; an individuality conceived without the 
sexual laws of mortality and by power of the Spirit — a 
perfect spiritual being upon whom the material laws had 
no power — free from sin — the Son of God. Hence, the term 
"Jesus the Christ"; "Jesus the Man"; "Jesus the Christ" 
the perfect spiritual being. 

The captivity of the Jews and their having been 
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the spiritual man and his bondage to the physical man. 
"Jerusalem" means vision — spiritual sight and power — 
insight into the spiritual universe — Soul purity — the 
city of Spirit — where the soul is delivered from carnal 
thoughts. The captivity and destruction of Jerusalem 
by the heathens as prophesied by the Prophets means the 
captivity and overcoming of the spiritual man by the 
physical man. 

Its destruction after the heathens had captured it, 
as told by the Prophets, means the final destruction of the 
physical man and his power over the spiritual man. The 
New Jerusalem, as seen and painted by the Prophets and 
St. John, means the final and absolute triumph of the 
spiritual man over the material man — spiritual life over 
material life; Spirit over matter and the spiritual uni- 
verse over the material universe. It is the City of Spirit — 
wherein the soul will only think spiritual thoughts— in 
that perfect spiritual state, matter will not exist. 

Every figure, character and allegory in the Bible 
represents some law of the spiritual and material crea- 
tion, the material and spiritual universe. The material 
universe only seems real to us because we are not in abso- 
lute harmony with the spiritual universe. 

If you want to know whether or not the Bible is a 
revelation to man, do not study dogmatic and scholastic 
theology, do not study science and philosophy, do not 
study the so-called scholastic creeds, but study the Bible 
and then study man; study the spiritual truths and ideals 
expressed in the Bible and apply them to the spiritual 
nature of the spiritual man; study the hygienic laws and 
the carnal ideas and thoughts as expressed in the Bible and 
apply them to the material and physical man. Do this 
and you have the eternal fitness of things. Do this and 
you have a perfect description as told in the Book of the 
nature of the spiritual and material man. Do this and 
you have the proof of the revelation of God to Man and 
the sufficient evidence of the Divinity of the Christ. 

Moses and the Prophets and the Apostles spoke 
freely and fully of the spiritual and the material man and 
of God's laws as applied to the spiritual and material 
creations. Why then should we not do likewise? This is 
the reason some declare that the Bible is a vulgar book, 
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44 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

Vulgar, because it describes the true character and na- 
ture of the physical and material man — all disease and 
sin is within the sex — and could not be understood by the 
material and physical man with his finite and carnal mind 
and physical senses, because it expresses the spiritual mind 
and described the spiritual nature of the spiritual man. 

Man is a dual creature, the Bible paints him as he is 
in his true character and nature; therefore, the Bible is a 
dual book. It is a spiritual book dealing with a spiritual 
man and a physical book which deals with a material man. 
Moses, the law giver, the Prophets and the Apostles 
understood this dual nature of man and wrote about him 
in his true character. They wrote about his physical 
birth and spoke about his spiritual birth. But the 
scholastic theology has departed from the land-marks of 
the inspired writers and have attempted to interpret the 
Bible simply as a spiritual Book and to deal with man as a 
spiritual being only. And herein is the crime of 
scholasticism. The natural laws which govern the bring- 
ing of the man born of woman into this world are physical 
and not spiritual — it is the laws of the sexes. What was 
the real "Fall of man" has been ignored and considered 
indecent and improper for discussion by the church and 
scholastic theology, and hence it is this misconception of 
the Immaculate Conception, the Crucifixion and the 
Resurrection that has been given to the human family by 
scholastic theology. 

Scholastic theology — and we mean by "Scholastic 
Theology' ' man-made theories of God — has done more to 
curse the human race than all the materialists and atheists 
of the ages. So-called scholastic theology has kept man in 
darkness as to his true nature, but man will not accept 
the teachings of the unbeliever as the finality of all things. 

If Moses could speak or write of the natural birth 
and describe the sexual realtions between the sexes 
as he did in perfect Oriental literary style in Geneses, 
if this great Law Giver, through revelation, could deal 
with man's physical nature and the sexual relations by 
which man is born of woman and the generative organs 
and what they mean, and the physical man as he is, and 
the physical man as he relates to the spiritual man, why 
should we hesitate to interpret things as they were revealed 
to him? If the Prophets speaking by the power of the 



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Holy Spirit could give expression to man's true physical 
nature, why should we be ashamed to receive their message 
as they taught it? For to bring the real man — the soul 
made in God's image, back into the Garden of Eden — 
the Truth must be taught that sin is within the sex of the 
mortal creation, and that the soul must overcome the 
carnal before it can again see God. 

If Jesus Christ, when on this earth, could devote 
his time and ministry to teaching the human family 
the laws of the physical man and his sexual nature and 
the difference between the physical and the spiritual man 
and how they blend and influence each other and yet how 
they differentiate from each other, why should we not 
follow His teachings? If the Apostles in establishing the 
Christian church gave us the physical laws which govern 
the material man in his sexual nature and the spiritual 
laws which govern the spiritual man in his spiritual nature, 
what right has the Christian church now to ignore these 
laws? What right has theology to change them? 

If Moses and the Prophets, Jesus and the Apostles, 
taught that the physical marriage and the sexual relation 
between the sexes, whereby man is born of woman, is 
anti-spiritual, what right has theology to attempt to 
spiritualize it and to make it one of the sacraments of the 
church? If the Creator said unto woman : 'Tor this cause 
—sin — thou shall conceive in sorrow?" And decreed that 
woman should bring forth man of the physical birth in 
pain and agony because she conceives in lust, and be- 
cause the sexual lust is anti-spiritual, and drove Adam 
from the Garden of Eden — drove the first man out from 
his spiritual state of happiness and life into fleshly bondage 
and returned the physical man to dust from which he 
came because he yielded to sexual lust and knew the 
first woman sexually, what right has theology to attempt 
to spiritualize the physical conception and to make the 
physical marriage a spiritual institution and a sacrament 
of the church? If the Prophets summed up all the sins 
of the material creation and of the fleshly man in the name 
of the harlot woman, why should the church ignore their 
teachings? If Jesus differentiated between the physical 
and the spiritual birth, why should we not accept His 
precepts? If the Apostles taught that the material 
birth was sinful and that the spiritual birth was Divine, 



46 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

why should not the theologians teach the truth as pro- 
claimed by the Fathers of the Church? 

Were the teachings of Moses, the Prophets, Jesus 
and the Apostles the truth? We only have to look around 
us and study man as he is to realize the truth of their 
teachings. 

The ignorant barbarian in the wild jungle of the 
forest realizes that he is a dual creature. There is some- 
thing within him which tells him of his dual nature, of his 
material and divine natures. There is something within 
him which tells him that his dual natures are in conflict 
with each other. The spiritual man within, seeking free- 
dom and to be released from bondage to the physical 
man, cries out for deliverance, bows to and prays to some 
power unknown to him which he knows is supreme, and 
at the same time he cuts and slashes the physical man in 
an effort to punish and to kill the physical man, because 
intuitively he knows that the physical man is at enmity 
with and destroying his better nature — the spiritual man. 
The female of the barbarians intuitively knows that her 
power over the male is through the sexual laws and is a 
matter of sexuality; hence, she puts-rings in her nose and 
dresses herself in the most attractive manner with the 
leaves of the forest so as to hold the male through her 
sexual power, just as the female does in the high cultured, 
civilized society when she wears rings, diamonds and 
jewelry and the best costumes of civilization to attract 
the male. The difference only being a matter of taste 
between barbarism and civilization, the purpose being 
one and the same — the control of the male by the female 
through sexual laws and sexual influence, the nature of 
which is anti-spiritual. Likewise, the male in the barbaric 
forest knows that the more brutal he is, the more vicious 
that he may be, the more attractive he will be to the fe- 
male, because brutality and viciousness represent physical 
strength, and physical strength represents sexual power, 
and the more sexual power he possesses the greater in- 
fluence he has over the female. 

The civilized man wears uniforms and goes to war 
and murders and slaughters his fellow man in the name 
of patriotism while the female stands by and smiles 
and inspires him on. The difference is only a matter 
of taste between barbarism and civilization. The power 



THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 47 

to murder and slaughter represents physical strength, 
which stands for sexuality in the male and makes the male 
more attractive to the female. Brutality, avarice and 
greed originate in the sexual organs of the male — the 
mortal mind — and the more brutal and the more avaric- 
ious the male is the more attractive he is to the female 
and the more influence he has over the female. 

Treachery, deception, jealousy and enmity of the 
female have their origin in the sex organs, mortal mind, 
and the more deceptive and treacherous the female is, 
the more artful she is in applying the influence of her 
sexuality, the more power she has over the male. 

All art and literature is governed by these laws. 
These are the two influences which run through and 
govern literature — the material and the spiritual man. 

Poetry which paints wars, marching armies, con- 
quests, murder and the flowing of rivers of blood, come 
from the carnal mind and have their origin in the sexual 
organs— the sex senses of the mortal man. If war and 
murder and flowing rivers of blood were no longer attrac- 
tive to the female, wars would cease and peace would 
reign on earth and good will among men. But because 
the power to kill and murder represents masculinity and 
masculinity governs and controls the female, men will 
continue to slaughter and murder each other. If treachery 
and deception were no longer attractive to the male, 
women would cease to apply their art of deception. But 
because deception represents feminity and woman's 
influence over the male is through feminity, which origi- 
nates in the sexual organs — the sex senses — mortal mind — 
she will continue to apply her art until the end of time; 
until the spiritual creation is free from bondage to the 
material creation. The material creation is sin. It is 
sex. There is not anything in it but sex — and sin — and 
there is not any sex in soul life. 

We have this truth thoroughly written in the history 
of man by art and literature. We have the picture of man 
painted in all ages marching in armies to conquest, wad- 
ing in blood to victory over his fellow man — and to the 
death and destruction of his fellow men, and at the 
same time we have the other picture painted on the canvas 
beside the picture of murder and death and rivers of 
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praying to be released from bondage to the physical man. 
We have in poetry the songs of marching armies, the war 
cry of the victor over the victim, and yet on the camp 
ground where the victims of the victors lay mourning 
and groaning and dying we have the songs going up to 
"THE GREAT I AM, THAT I AM"— from the spirit- 
ual man crying out for union with the Spiritual Universe 
— to know God. 

This is true of the heathen as well as of the Christian. 
Before there was a Bible— a revelation from God to man 
in written form — the carnal mind of man butchered and 
slaughtered his fellow man in the name of his heathen 
gods. All idolatry is within the sex senses. In the name 
of the gods, the heathen went to war. The carnal mind 
of the heathen is governed by the same material law as 
the Christian, governed from the same source — the sex 
senses — the force which generates the material man — the 
sexual organs. The heathen had the same carnal mind 
as the Christian and was governed by the same carnal 
instincts. At the same time, he had the same spiritual 
nature, a spiritual individuality crying out to be free from 
bondage to the fleshly man and offering up prayers and 
chanting to his heathen gods. 

The literature of the heathen, like the literature of 
the Christian, had but two governing forces, that of the 
carnal mind as produced through the sexual organs — 
the sex senses— and that of the spiritual man — the soul 
as Divine mind. 

All poetry of the heathen and the Christian which 
appeals to the material man is woven around the story 
of a woman. Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare and the master 
painters of the ages who have painted the carnal man on , 
the canvas of all time, told the story in art of the in- 
fluence of woman over man, the story of the influence of 
the female over the male through the sexual organs — 
mortal mind — they have told the same story that the Bible 
tells us in Genesis when it says: "For this cause a man 
shall forsake his father and his mother and cleave unto his 
wife." That is to say, the sexual attractions between the 
sexes is the strongest attraction of the material creation 
and the supreme controlling power of the material man. 
Every ambition, every struggle for power, influence, and 
position of the male is controlled by this law. Every 



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moving purpose of the female is controlled by the same 
law. 

Oppression and slavery is controlled by this law. 
You have only to look into the face of man and read the 
avarice, greed, malice, envy and jealousy written there 
to realize the power of the sexual law over the material 
man and the enmity of the physical man with the spiritual 
man. You have only to look into the face of the female 
and read the treachery, deception, hypocracy and jealousy 
written there to know the power of the sexual organs and 
the sexual law over the animal creation and the spiritual. 
The difference between the Christian and heathen is 
this: The Christian is one who has overcome the sex 
senses and worships God as Spirit and the heathen is one 
who lives for the sex instincts and worships the sex senses 
— the beast. 

You only have to read the faces of the male and 
female of the highest creation of the naimal kingdom 
— man and woman — and study the anti-spiritual nature of 
the material creation as represented and influenced through 
the sexual organs — mortal mind — the means whereby 
the physical man is generated and brought forth — and then 
read the perfect description of this physical man with 
his carnal mind as influenced by the sexual law as told 
in the Bible to know that the Bible is. true. 

All evil of the material creation originates in the 
sexual organs — mortal mind — and is controlled by the 
sexual laws. The source whereby the physical man is 
created is the fountain head of the anti-spiritual creation. 
Take the girl just coming into womanhood, when she 
first begins to realize her sexual nature, instinctively, she 
realizes there is something within her at war with her 
spiritual nature; and she wants to flee to some source 
and somewhere for protection. If she is a member of 
the so-called orthodox Protestant church and attends 
the usual so-called religious revivals she is the first to go 
to the mourners' bench — she is an easy subject for the 
evangelist. If she is a member of the orthodox Catholic 
church she is the first at the confessional box. 

The boy, when he reaches that age where he begins to 
realize the influence of the sexual law — puberty — becomes 
malicious and vicious; he wishes to demonstrate his 
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The Catholic church, realizing this animal nature 
of man, invented the confessional box in an effort to 
control it. To fully appreciate the anti-spiritual nature of 
the physical creation, we must comprehend the source 
from which it comes, the sexual organs — the sex senses — 
and that the sex sense controls it, and the perfect descrip- 
tion of the evil forces as described and told in the Bible. 

The Bible is a natural Book true to nature — true to sin 
— sex. The Bible is a spiritual Book and through it the 
spiritual universe is revealed to our individual and 
personal spiritualities. The Bible is a revelation of the 
universal Spirit to us — the Divine mind to the individual- 
ized spirits. 

That the Bible is true to nature is in evidence be- 
fore us daily. Watch the maiden as she flirts with the 
male — her every act and movement controlled by her 
sex senses and the sexual laws. She practices deception 
here and duplicity there. She declares loyalty today and 
betrays tomorrow; she proclaims her virtue to one; 
manifests her disloyalty to the other; she swears her loy- 
alty in sweetness to the one of her own sex — while the 
mad ocean of jealousy within foams and rages when a 
member of the opposite sex is the subject of rivalry. She 
professes her purity today and tomorrow she is in the 
depths of depravity. 

The male declares his honesty today — when he 
will rob, steal, plunder and murder tomorrow to control 
and influence the female. He will confess loyalty to one 
of his own sex and then murder him because he is his rival 
for the same member of the female sex. He will betray 
the most sacred cause for the woman who appeals the 
greatest to his sexual nature; there is no crime too great 
for him to commit to win her — no cause too sacred for 
him not to desert for her. She stirs within him wrath, 
jealousy, hatred, malice and murder and he is swept 
on by the ocean of these irresistible billows of his fleshly 
nature — he sweeps everything before him to destruction 
to have his carnal nature gratified by the woman who ap- 
peals to his sexual nature. 

The law of the sexes is the all moving power of 
physical creation — mortal mind- — sex — sin is the all 
force of the physical creation. | 

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of evil impulses ever beating against the shores of the 
spiritual universe that the Bible paints as anti-God and 
anti-spiritual and which Holy Writ declares came from 
dust and to dust must return. He is not the child of God, 
but of lust, and has no Ego and being in the Christ mind. 

Study him and study the Bible and see the perfect 
description of him and his physical nature as therein 
recorded and you will know the Book is true. 

That his conception and coming into this world is 
anti-spiritual is recorded by natural law and fully set 
forth in Holy Writ. 

Of all the animal kingdom, man is highest type, 
and in his physical capacity was given dominion over all 
other creatures. But as an evidence and as an ever 
living testimony of the anit-spiritual nature of the physi- 
cal man, the generative organs by which he is conceived 
are subject to the most deadly diseases known to the 
material creation— syphilis — the curse and scourge of 
the human race, and by which billions of human beings 
have died, and is the indisputable evidence of the non- 
spiritual nature of man's physical birth. This loathsome 
disease with the horrors and suffering that it has produced 
upon the human family is an ever living testimony to the 
truth that the sins of the fathers are visited upon the 
third and fourth generations. The suffering of the monthly 
female sickness is the result of sin ; and woman is the only 
female of the animal kingdom afflicted with the suffering 
of what is termed the "change of life." These facts are 
recorded by nature as evidence of the non-spiritual nature 
of the physical man and what they mean are fully pro- 
claimed to us in Holy Writ— if we will only read it cor- 
rectly and understandingly. When man was com- 
manded to subdue the earth — the flesh — he failed to 
execute the command — but yielded to the flesh — and this 
mortal propagation with its sin is the result. But man — 
the being made in God's image must yet overcome that 
sin to be restored to the image of God — and in that state 
of life there is no sex, matter — sin nor death. 



CHAPTER VII. 
MATERIAL MAN. 

We have presented the idea of the physical and spirit- 
ual man in their dual natures and in their opposite na- 
tures in a limited degree at least. Let us here present 
more fully the physical man of this dual creation in his 
material nature. 

As we have said, the material man is conceived and 
generated through lust by the physical and sexual laws 
and in a material way. He is the product of material 
laws and materiality. He is of mortal conception — the 
man made in God's image is of Divine conception. There 
are two all-propelling forces which cause mortal man to 
be conceived, generated and brought into existence — 
sexual lust and selfishness. The desire of the material 
man and his mortal mind to gratify his carnal lust and 
his further selfish desire to perpetuate his material exist- 
ence by bringing forth material offspring are the all mov- 
ing causes of the production and perpetuation of the 
material man. That is what the Bible means when it 
says: "For this cause he will leave his father and his 
mother and cleave unto his wife/' That is, the offspring 
of the material man will forsake the parents who produced 
him in order to gratify his carnal lust and to reproduce 
his material self. This sexual lust and desire to reproduce 
the material self is the strongest and the most binding 
tie of the material creation. It takes the male and the 
female of the animal kingdom of .the material creation to 
make a complete unit of the animal kingdom of the 
material creation, and the mutual desire to gratify the 
carnal lust and to perpetuate self by the reproduction of 
the mortal man is the most binding tie known to the 
human law, the material man, the animal kingdom and 
the material creation. 

This lustful nature and selfish desire to reproduce 

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self by perpetuation of the material man is based on 
human laws and are anti-spiritual in their nature. 

As soon as the first man and the first woman gratified 
this carnal lust and selfish desire they knew good from 
evil — were conscious of their dual natures; that the 
spiritual individuality within was protesting against the 
material personaltiy without and that the material per- 
sonality without was at war with the spiritual individual- 
ity within. They were naked and knew it. 

This material man is not only anti-spiritual, but -the 
opposite of Spirit, and cannot know spiritual things. 
He has physical senses and a carnal and material mind, 
but his nature is the opposite of spiritual and he cannot 
comprehend or understand spiritual things, spiritual 
individualities, spiritual laws, or the spiritual universe. 
He has the material eyes and can see ; he has material ears 
and can hear; he has all the five physical senses which 
enable him to know the material world. He has the carnal 
and material mind through and by which he knows and 
understands the material universe and its laws. 

But this material man with his carnal and material 
mind cannot know, understand or realize the spiritual. 

The material man and the spiritual man are the 
opposite of each other and the contrary and the con- 
trast of each other in their attributes and natures. The 
material man is DEATH — the spiritual man is LIFE. 

This is what differentiates man — his dual natures — 
from the lower animal kingdom over which he was given 
"dominion" — The consciousness of good and evil. He is 
conscious of good and evil because — man the Ego — the 
real self was made in the image of God. 

The members of the lower animal creation are con- 
ceived and born and brought forth into existence by the 
same sexual laws of material creation as is man; but the 
members of the lower animal creation do not possess the 
immaterial creation individualized into individualities so 
as to have been made in "God's Image," and are not there- 
fore conscious of the opposite natures of the material 
universe and the spiritual universe as is man in hk dual 
nature. 

Man having been made in "God's Image," that is, 
the spiritual individuality — the soul — by partaking of the 
attributes of the spiritual universe and the spiritual 



54 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

nature of the spiritual universe in the light of the Image 
of God, is what differentiated him from the lower animal 
creation and the reason why he was given dominion over it. 
This dominion was a spiritual dominion until after 
"the fall," for until then man needed no material meat 
for the mortal man. 

The material laws by which all of the animal crea- 
tion is conceived and brought into existence are deadly 
poison in their nature and contrary to the laws of the 
spiritual universe. 

This conception and birth of the animal kingdom 
of the material creation is anti-spiritual. 

That is what David meant when he said: "I was 
conceived in sin and shapened in iniquity in my mother's 
womb." This anti-spiritual nature runs all through the 
conception and birth of the animal kingdom of the 
material creation. 

The material birth is death — the spiritual birth is 
life. The material birth is of matter — lust — the spiritual 
birth is of Spirit. 

The function of the male and female of the animal 
kingdom and of the material creation is to propagate, and 
this function is deadly in its nature, and will continue 
until the spirit overcomes the flesh — life overcomes 
death and then God's Kingdom will come in earth — 
the flesh — as in heaven — as in Spirit. 

The influence of the sexes of the animal kingdom 
over each other and the material creation is of a poi- 
sonous and deadly nature. They live to propagate and 
then die for propagating. 

Their function is to propagate, and each time the 
act which is necessary to propagate is committed, part of 
the material life is given up. Sexual relations reduces 
the vitality of the material man and he gives up part of 
his material life each time he commits the act. The act 
necessary to propagate the material man is injurious and 
destructive to the nervous system, and the nervous sys- 
tem is the means whereby all life is imparted from the 
immaterial universe into the material man. In propor- 
portion as you destroy the nervous system, in that por- 
tion do you destroy the means whereby life and vitality 
is imparted to the material man. Matter has properties; 
but matter has no life. What is called "Life" in the ma- 



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terial man is the vitality which is imparted from the im- 
material universe over the nervous system and which 
energizes the physical man. 

The sexual relations whereby the physical man is 
propagated is the indicator of the death of the material 
man ; it is deadly in its nature. Every time he has these 
relations, he gives up part of his material and physical 
life. 

Moses understood this material law of the physical 
man and deals with it in the Mosaic law. Hence, the crime 
pronounced by the Mosaic law for spilling the semen 
whereby the material man is propagated. The Mosaic 
law teaches us that the sexual act should only be com- 
mitted for the purpose of propagating man, and even that 
is deadly in its nature and sinful. 'Therefore, all are 
condemned under the law." "And there are none per- 
fect; no, not one." Because the material man either com- 
mits the sexual act in fact or in desire. He sins in mind 
and thought. "And he that looketh upon a woman to 
lust after her — committeth adultery." So — "There is 
none perfect; no, not one." Material man stands con- 
demned under the law. His life and the means whereby 
he is propagated are contrary to the spiritual man. 

The relation of the sexes to each other in their 
sexual and material relations is deadly and contrary to 
the Spirit. This law runs all through the animal and 
material creation. 

There is in the lower animal creation an animal we 
believe called "The Devil's Race Horse," the female of 
which will flirt with the male until she excites the sexual 
passions of the male and urges him on to the sexual rela- 
tions, and while the sexual relations are taking place, and 
while she has him within the grasp of her fangs, she will 
literally chew and sting him to death — when the sexual 
relations are over the male is dead. There are many of 
the animal kingdom where the male dies when the sexual 
act is committed — the law is death. 

What is true of this lower species of the animal 
kingdom is true of the material man. Who, with an 
observing mind, has never noticed this law in the ani- 
mal and material creation? Who has never observed 
the male within the clutches and power of the flirtations 
of the woman — the female — until through the sexual 



56 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

laws she had sapped all of his physical vitality, moral 
stamina, courage, honor, mentality and manhood from 
him and reduced him to a physical, financial, moral and 
mental wreck and left him afloat on the tossed, foaming, 
mad, raging billows of the ocean of the material creation 
without any spiritual harbor in which to anchor. 

This law runs through the material universe — the 
sexual relation by which the animal and material life is 
generated means death. What student of nature has 
not observed this law with the lower forms of the animal 
kingdom? Who is it that has studied nature and observed 
her laws who has not noticed and observed the male turn 
on the female with disgust after sexual relation, conscious 
that he had given up a part of his physical life? The 
mind of the serpent is death all through nature. It is at 
war with God and all that is spiritual. 

This law is true as to man and accounts for why the 
woman and the man who, according to Scholastic theology, 
were desperately in love with each other today, learned to 
despise and hate each other tomorrow. When their sexual 
passions were raging and sexual lust was eating up their 
spiritual life, as scholastic theology terms it, "they were 
desperately in love," but when they have satisfied their 
fleshly lusts through sexual relations and have become 
conscious that they have given up a part of their physical 
life, they then despise and hate each other. 

That is what Jesus meant when he said: "Flesh and 
blood cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven"; that is, the 
material man who is conceived through lust and the mater- 
ial universe cannot know God. 

By the decree of the natural law sexual relations 
mean death. The brain is the dynamo by which vitality 
and life is gathered up and collected from the immaterial 
universe which is life and these vital currents from the 
dynamo — the brain — or life currents, are sent as mental 
impulses down the spinal cord and telegraphed off from 
the spinal cord over the main nerve trunks to the heart, 
the kidneys, the liver, the stomach, to all the organs and 
parts of the body causing the organs of the body to func- 
tion, producing digestion, circulation and what is 
termed material life in the material man. Matter has 
chemical properties but matter has no intelligence or 
life within itself. What we call life in the material man 



THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 57 

is that vitality which is telegraphed into the material man 
over and through the nervous system. This life current 
is collected and generated in the brain, just as electricity 
is collected and generated by a dynamo and sent flashing 
over the wires, producing power and force. All life is in 
mind — spirit. 

The life force of the immaterial universe or spiritual 
universe which the scholastic world calls "God" is col- 
lected and generated by the brain — the dynamo — and 
these life currents are sent flashing over the nervous sys- 
tem producing what we call "Life" in the material man. 
These currents are conducted from the brain to the various 
organs, glands, tissues, muscles and parts of the body by 
the nervous system. This nervous system is the fine fab- 
ric of the human system and is composed of two parts, 
the outside or sheath, a tough and elastic substance, and 
the inside or axis cylinder, a soft jelly like substance. 
The chemical composition of this nervous system is albu- 
men and phosphorus. It is over this jelly like substance, 
which we call the nervous system, that the brain sends 
life currents into the material man and produces what we 
call "Material Life." Each nerve is a unit and under 
normal conditions conducts a unit part of life from the 
brain into the material man. 

The spinal cord is the main nerve trunk. At one 
end of the spinal cord is the brain. At the other end of 
the spinal cord are the sexual organs. The sexual organs 
and the brain are immediately connected with each other 
by means of the nerve system of the spinal cord. The 
sexual organs are constantly sending impulses to the 
brain by means of the spinal cord and the brain is con- 
stantly sending impulses to the sexual organs over the 
spinal cord. They are in telegraphic connection with each 
other by means of the nervous system. This is the mortal 
mind, and in it is located all hatred, malice, jealousy, envy, 
murder and death. All that is within man that is at war 
with God is in this mind. 

Man or woman — that is the material man or woman 
— is just as strong physically as he or she is strong sexually. 
Sexual power is the barometer of material vitality, and 
sexual power is the barometer of sin and senuaslity. 

Where is the thinker and observer of nature and of 
nature's laws who has not observed this material vital- 



58 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

ity, lust, jealousy, prejudice, hatred and malice of the 
material man as it is telegraphed by the sexual organs over 
the nervous system, up the spinal cord and to the brain 
and expressed itself in the eye and facial expression and 
mannerism of the material man. 

The animal nature of man is expressed on his face 
as it is telegraphed from the sexual organs over the ner- 
vous system to the brain. These nerve currents are in 
constant action from the brain to the sexual organs and 
from the sexual organs to the brain. The carnal mind 
as it dwells in the realm of sexual imagination, carnal 
lust and material things, is controlled by the sexual or- 
gans — the sex senses. The power of hatred, malice, jeal- 
ousy, envy, lust and murder as they rage and battle with 
the material man have their origin in the sexual organs 
which sends them as currents over the spinal cord to the 
brain. The educated or human mind of man which deals 
with the physical senses and the material man and ma- 
terial things is controlled by this same law. 

The theologian in the pulpit preaching a physical 
god, a god of hatred, of jealousy, with physical senses, 
to the material man with physical senses and a human 
mind of hatred, jealousy and malice, is controlled by 
this law; and yet the theologian is unconscious of the 
fact that it is these nerve currents sent by the sexual 
organs over the nervous system to the brain that gives 
him this conception of a god and his relation to man. 
It is the war of the sex senses in the generative organs, 
and the lust senses in the brain which are in conflict, with 
the soul that gives him this human conception o f God. 

The power of mental imagery which paints upon the 
canvas the poetic picture that pleases the human mind 
comes from the sexual organs — the sex— and lust senses. 
The theologian in the pulpit, as he paints the beautiful 
landscape of material things, portrays the marching armies 
of the centuries of a material church marching to a ma- 
terial conquest so as to please the fancy of the material 
man, is controlled by this law. 

All poetry, imagination, emotion and sentiment 
which appeals to the physical man and mind of the physi- 
cal senses is controlled by this law. 

Hence Jesus said: "My kingdom is not of this 
world/' the flesh — meaning that the spiritual man and 



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his spiritual mind are entirely different from the material 
man and his physical senses. Again he said: "Search 
the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal 
life, and they are that which condemn you"; meaning, 
"Search the scriptures, for in them you think they attri- 
bute life to the material man and his physical senses," 
wherein as a matter of fact they describe the material man 
with his physical senses as anti-spiritual and condemn 
him unto death. 

The material man is just as strong and vital as his 
nervous system and sexual organs are strong. It is the 
life current which is generated in the brain and tele- 
graphed over the nervous system that causes all diges- 
tion, assimilation of matter and keeps vitality in the 
material man. When the material man is asleep, this 
nervous system is relaxed and this vital current is flowing 
from the brain with full force and speed over the nervous 
system in the material man, throwing off the waste matter 
and assimilating new material — building up tissues and 
vitality in the material man. 

As the nervous system grows weaker and the brain 
— the dynamo — by degrees loses its power to generate 
and send this vital current over the nervous system into 
the material man, vitality decreases in the material man, 
and as this process continues to decrease, finally, the 
brain ceases to generate enough vital current. The 
nervous system becomes so weak that it can no longer 
conduct vitality enough into the material man to produce 
digestion, assimilation, circulation, molecular motion, or 
material life, and death to the material man is the result. 
Sense consciousness ceases — Life — mind — ceases to func- 
tion through the physical senses. 

Governed by this law is wherein the power of spir- 
itual healing has virtue. If evil thoughts are generated 
in the brain, the lust senses — if malice and lust and hatred 
are raging there, the vital currents which are generated 
in the brain and telegraphed over the nervous system 
into the material man are disturbed, and instead of 
these vital currents coming over the nervous system 
from the brain, producing digestion, circulation, molecular 
motion, assimilation and vitality in the material man, 
their efficiency is perverted, the digestion, circulation, 
molecular motion and the assimilation becomes imperfect 



60 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

and the matter which composes the material man — 
chemically speaking — is imperfectly assimilated and be- 
comes a foreign substance and a poison to the material 
man and sickness and death of the material man is the re- 
sult. The Divine mind is perfect peace and therefore 
life. 

If the mind is kept at peace, hatred and malice, lust 
and murder are excluded from its domain and love and 
peace and spiritual thoughts reign within its realm, the 
brain — the dynamo — sends these currents over the 
nervous system in perfect harmony and with full force 
into the material man producing circulation, digestion, 
assimilation, molecular motion, vitality and health in 
the material man. There is no sickness and death in the 
Divine mind — all sickness and death is in the carnal mind. 

Upon the truth of this law depends all the virtue of 
the schools known as New Thought, Christian Science, 
Mental Healing, Divine Science and every other school 
of thought which claims to heal the material man by the 
power of mind and Spirit over matter. 

Soul purity heals all disease. The Christ was per- 
fect soul purity and therefore had complete power over 
disease and death. This is what the Prophets and the 
Apostels taught. That the great governing and controlling 
law of the spiritual universe is the Creator and the ma- 
terial universe the Creature, and all disease is in the 
creation — the sex — senses — of the mortal and is the re- 
sult of sin, but scholastic theology has so perverted their 
teachings, in order to preach a physical god to the ma- 
terialism of man, that the light of the spiritual world has 
almost been lost in the darkness of the material world, the 
cause of sin and sickness and death has been lost in the 
night of sensuality. 

The brain and the nervous system must be kept 
strong and sound in order to collect the vital force from 
the spiritual world and generate it into vitality and 
telegraph it over the nervous system and keep molec- 
ular motion and life at full force in the material man. 
Every atom and molecule of matter is continually in 
motion in the material man. This motion is kept in ac- 
tion by virtue of this life current being sent over the 
nervous system from the brain and this molecular mo- 
tion produced by this nerve current causes the waste 



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matter of the material man to be eliminated and all the 
organs of the body to perform their functions and the 
assimilation of food, circulation and digestion and 
material life to exist in the material man. The mo- 
ment that the nerve current becomes so weak that 
atomic and molecular motion ceases to produce vitality 
and life in nerve force, sense consciousness, you have 
death in the material man. 

The sexual organs are at one end and the brain is 
at the other end of the spinal cord — the main trunk of 
the nervous system — which sends these vital currents over 
the nervous system producing nerve force which atomic 
and molecular motion produces vitality and life in the 
material man. Every time the sexes have sexual relation 
the nerve system is weakened; the power of the brain 
to generate this life current and the nervous system to 
conduct it into the body of the material man so as to 
produce vitality and life, loses some of its force. Hence, 
the means by which the material man is conceived means 
death. Every time the sexes have sexual relations they 
give up part of their material lives. The continued prac- 
tice of the sexual relations and the abuse of them weakens 
and destroys the capacity of the brain to generate the 
life current and the nervous system to conduct this cur- 
rent into the material man so as to produce digestion, 
assimilation, circulation, atomic and molecular motion 
and hence sickness and death of the material man follows. 
Then we see that sickness and disease are in the carnal 
mind and produced by sin. 

The teachings of the truth of this law Moses gave 
to the Hebrews as a Revelation from God, but the schol- 
astic theology, through false modesty, and sensuality, 
has eliminated it from the church and left the human 
family in darkness to suffer in their ignorance. Jesus did 
not tell his Apostles to build hospitals and insane institu- 
tions, but to heal the sick and to cast out devils in His 
name. The purity of the Christ mind heals the sick and 
restores to the insane their right minds. 

The Mosaic law was the instruction to the Children 
of Israel how to preserve the material as well as the 
spiritual man, his teachings were hygenic as well as spir- 
itual. And he taught that the gratification of the lust 
of the material man was death unto the material man and 



62 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

anti-spiritual and darkness and night instead of light and 
day to the spiritual man. The Prophets, Jesus and the 
Apostles taught the same truth. 

The teachings of Moses, the Prophets, Jesus and the 
Apostles, were life for the material man and life for the 
spiritual man and that was the mission left to the church on 
earth; the creed that Christ gave unto His church was how 
to preserve the physical man and how to appreciate and de- 
velop the spiritual man and how to conquer the material 
man and subject him to the power and influence of the 
spiritual man. To heal the sick, restore sight to the blind, 
and raise the dead was His commission to His church, 
and to execute His command He taught that man must 
overcome the serpent — sensuality. But how far so-called 
scholastic theology has drifted from the true landmarks 
of the real church founded by Him — the Great Teacher! 

This material man is conceived in sin — is anti-spir- 
itual in his nature and in the very nature of things must 
die. By observing the natural laws he can prolong his 
life, keep free from sickness and pain and die the natural 
material death. But the church has failed to teach him 
the truth about his material self as well as the truth 
about his spiritual self and hence he has violated every 
material law and every spiritual law and the human family 
is a race of dwarfs and invalids, with all kinds of physical 
imperfections and diseases materially and groping in 
spiritual darkness and night spiritually. 

If the church had taught the human race the truth 
materially and spiritually, as Moses, the Prophets, 
Jesus and the Apostles taught, the race would have been 
strong, healthy, robust with material life and the members 
thereof would have lived out the natural allotted time 
of the material man without sickness and pain; with the 
material man kept under subjection to the spiritual man 
and the material man would have died a natural death, 
as the result of inherent sin. 

The material man — male or female — who comes into 
this world of material healthy parents and does not 
violate nature's laws and understands what the laws of 
the sexual laws are and observes them and keeps the ma- 
terial man under subjection to the spiritual man has the 
truth of the material and spiritual creation written upon 
the face. On the contrary, the man or woman who is 



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born of parents who violated nature's laws and abused 
the sex laws, and who subjected the spiritual man to the 
material man, or who after coming into this world, vio- 
lates nature's laws and abuses the sexual laws and sur- 
renders to the material man, has it written upon the face. 
He who sins, carries sin on the face. 

The vital current which is generated in the brain 
and sent by impulses down the spinal cord and over the 
nervous system and which produces atomic and mole- 
cular motion in the material man, not only causes the 
waste matter, which has served its purpose in the material 
body, and has become foreign substance and poisonous 
to the material man, to be thrown off, but it causes new 
matter which is taken into the system by way of food to 
be assimilated and to become part of the material life 
of the material man; this elimination of waste and foreign 
matter and assimilation of new matter of the various 
chemical elements in their proper proportions to keep the 
material man alive is continually going on by means of 
this vital current, which is ordinarily called nerve force. 
As the nervous system grows weaker the means of gener- 
ating this vital current and sending it over the nerve sys- 
tem becomes less efficient and the process of the elimina- 
tion of waste matter and foreign substance becomes more 
and more defective and the capacity to assimilate new 
matter in its proper proportions to produce material life 
becomes less efficient until the material man becomes 
self-poisoned from this waste and foreign matter which 
he cannot eliminate and becomes weaker and weaker for 
the want of assimilation of new matter to produce ma- 
terial life, and material death results. 

The elimination of waste and foreign matter and 
assimilation of new chemical matter in proportion to 
produce material life is to metabolize and when the 
nervous system is sound and strong and the brain sends 
the vital currents over the nervous system to produce 
strong and perfect metabolism in the body — you have 
a healthy and strong material man. This material man 
is composed of a certain number of chemical material 
elements in certain fixed proportions. The animal 
kingdom, including man, takes these chemical elements 
from the vegetable kingdom into his stomach and they 
are classified and converted into material life by means 



64 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

of the nerve force of the vital current generated in the 
brain and sent over the nervous system. In different 
climates this material man needs different proportions 
of these chemical elements. Under certain conditions 
he needs other proportions of these chemical matters. 
In hot climates he needs more fruits and vegetables 
because they possess water, — the chemical elements of 
oxygen and hydrogen — to keep his blood cool. In cold 
climates he needs more of the fats which produce ani- 
mal heat. The man who does physical labor needs more 
nitrogen which produces muscle. The man who does 
mental work needs more phosphorus, which acts as a 
conductor for thought which is generated in the brain and 
which is burned out by means of too much mental effort. 
The Creator provided all of these laws in His wisdom and 
intelligent creation; in the hot climates the fruits and 
vegetables grow abundantly, for man there needs them as a 
food. In cold climates the fish and the animals that in- 
habit these regions — over which man was given dominion 
— after the fall — possess oil and fat abundantly for food 
for man, which will produce animal heat when assimilated 
into his body. The vegetable kingdom possesses the 
various chemical elements necessary to produce physical 
life when eaten and assimilated by the material man and 
the animal kingdom. The material creation — the cos- 
mos — demonstrates the wisdom and Intelligence of the 
Creative Force. It is order not chaos. 

It is with this universal law of order as applied to 
the material man which the Mosaic law dealt. And 
hence the Jew was the healthiest of all the races of the ages. 
The orthodox Jew was taught by the Mosaic law the rules 
and regulations arid the natural laws which govern the 
material man as well as the spiritual laws which govern 
the spiritual man. Moses taught the Jew that sickness 
was the result of sin. 

The Jew was taught that sexual abuse meant death 
to the physical man — he was taught the purpose of the 
sexual organs and the sexual laws of the sexes. 

But scholastic theology has departed far from the 
teachings of Moses, the Prophets, Jesus and the Apostles. 
The things that they taught and upon which the Great 
Teacher founded His church have become an unknown 
quantity to so-called scholastic theology. 



THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 65 

The human family — generation after generation — 
has been growing up in ignorance as to the material man 
and the laws which govern him and without a true con- 
ception of the spiritual man and a knowledge of the 
differentiation between the spiritual and the material 
man. By reason of this ignorance the human family — 
the material man — has lived for lust and has been taught 
that the human birth was spiritual and has over-indulged 
the sexual desires both naturally and artificially, with all 
kinds of abuses, until the nervous system and the brain — 
the dynamo — which generates vitality from the spiritual 
world and sends it over the nervous system producing 
life in the material man, has become diseased and de- 
generated and the human family has become a race of 
mental and material degenerates. 

That is what Jesus meant in the parable of the prodi- 
gal son. "He has wasted his substance in riotous living,' ' 
on the harlots, i. e., has wasted his material life, destroyed 
his nervous system and the power of his brain to generate 
vitality over his nervous system into the material man 
by indulging his lustful nature. And on account of sin 
the soul was starving. "He came to himself," i. e., he 
became conscious of the deadly nature of lust and how it 
had destroyed his material life ; and that there was another 
life — the spiritual life — and that he had another self — the 
spiritual man — another and real Ego which did not par- 
take of the nature of the material man. "I will arise and 
go to my father," i. e., the spiritual man will deny the lust 
of the material man and enter into the joys of spiritual 
things. "I" — the spiritual man — "will deny and forsake 
the material man with his lustful nature and go to my 
father" — the "Great I Am that I Am." "For in my 
father's house are many mansions" — spiritual power and 
life. 

The material man approaches material death in 
proportion as the generative power of the brain and 
the nervous system declines and fails to carry the life 
current into the material man. When this generative 
power of the brain and nerve force is being conducted 
with full force into the material man, he is in full force 
and effect with material life and at war with the spiritual 
man. Fight and war — blood and murder — rage within 
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full currents from the brain to the sexual organs and from 
the sexual organs to the brain. From the sex senses to 
the lust senses, and from the lust senses of the brain to 
the sex senses of the generative organs. Eunichs do not 
create war, lead crusades of death, destroy empires and 
drench the earth with blood. The female with the 
ovaries removed does not gather the male within her 
clutches and fangs and bleed him morally and spiritually 
to death and then murder him through lustful jealousy. 

That is what Jesus meant when He said, "Suffer 
little children to come unto me and forbid them not for 
of such is the kingdom of heaven," i. e., they had not 
reached that age when they were conscious of the sexual 
laws, and the sex senses — and their sexual natures and 
lustful desires and power were not raging within them and 
destroying their spiritual nature and spiritual life. 

Oh, that the christian world, socalled, would only get 
a glimmer of light on the teachings of Moses, the Prophets 
and the Man of Galilee and the Apostles — and teach the 
human race just one iota of the truth of the divine things. 
Oh, for the day when we shall return to the teachings of 
Moses and the primitive church — that sin is in the sex — 
and lust senses — and that sickness, disease and death 
are the result of sin, and to overcome sin, we must over- 
come sensuality. Oh, for the day when the truth of the 
Christ will be taught in the church again — that purity of 
soul — overcomes sensuality, disease, sickness and insanity 
of the mortal man. That in the Christ mind there are no 
sensual thoughts and material consciousness — but only 
the Divine soul is in that realm, and that the Divine is 
life. 



CHAPTER VIII. 
THE SPIRITUAL MAN. 

In Numbers 16: 22, we are told: "And they fell 
upon their faces and said : God, the God of the spirits 
of all flesh, shall one sin and wilt thou be wroth with the 
congregation?' ' We note here that there is a difference 
between Spirit and flesh and that the inspired writer calls 
the Universal Intelligence which the scholastic world 
terms God — "the God of the spirits of all flesh." Mean- 
ing, of course, "the spirits of all men/' i. e., that there is 
in every material man an individual spiritual man, and that 
God the Universal Spiritual Intelligence is the Creator 
of the individual spiritual man. That is to say, this 
individual spiritual man is a part of the Universal Intelli- 
gence individualized into the individual spiritual being, 
and it was this spiritual man that God created in His 
"own image." That is to say, that is what the Bible means 
when it says: "God is a Spirit and they that worship 
Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth." That is 
to say, that the Creative Intelligence is Spirit and that 
He created the spiritual man in His own image; that is, 
with the same spiritual nature of the Universal Intelli- 
gence. This spiritual man has his spiritual senses by 
which and through which he knows, understands and com- 
prehends the spiritual universe just as the material man 
has his physical senses by which and through which he 
comprehends and understands the material universe and 
the material creation. The spiritual mind is the real Ego, 
and the only real man, and when he returns to the full 
and complete consciousness of God, the material man and 
the physical senses disappear from consciousness. 

The spiritual man whom God created in His own 
image is subject to spiritual laws and cannot with his 
spiritual senses understand and comprehend the material 
creation. Neither can the material man with his material 
senses understand and comprehend the spiritual universe 

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— and the spiritual creation. The spiritual is real, the 
material is unreal. 

God, the Universal Intelligence, when He com- 
municates to the spiritual man that He created in His 
own image subject to the spiritual laws, communicates 
to His spiritual nature by and through the spiritual 
senses by spiritual law and not by means of the natural 
law. When man — the spiritual man whom God created 
in His own image with a spiritual nature— communes 
with the Universal Spiritual Intelligence — God — he does 
so through his spiritual senses and by means of spiritual 
and not natural law. 

That is what Jesus meant when He said: "That 
my kingdom is not of this world," i. e., His kingdom is 
spiritual and not .material and that His kingdom is sub- 
ject to spiritual and not natural laws. The sex senses 
control the material man. When He said, "Forgive them, for 
they know not what they do," He had in mind this same 
truth, i. e., they — His accusers — were trying to know the 
Universal Intelligence — the Spiritual universe through 
and by means of their physical senses and their carnal 
minds; that the material man was trying to know the 
spiritual universe which was impossible, and that the 
material man with his material senses — in his efforts 
to know the Spiritual Creator — made a material god, the 
object of his own creation, to fit the physical senses of 
the material man. Jesus had the same truth and spiritual 
law in mind when He said, "I, of Myself, can do nothing; 
but all things are possible with the Father who sent Me." 
Of course, meaning by "I, Myself," He — Jesus — the 
material man, with his sex senses, not Christ the Perfect 
Spiritual Creation — but the sex of the mortal crea- 
tion. He intended conveying to man by this expression 
that He — the physical man, Jesus, with His sex senses was 
without power in spiritual things and was without power in 
the dominion of spirit; that He— the physical man — was 
a part of the material creation and was without power 
in spiritual things; but that He — the Christ — the Per- 
fect Spiritual Idea and conception of the Universal 
Spiritual Intelligence, was absolutely in harmony with 
the spiritual universe and its laws and that all things were 
possible with the Father who sent Him — the Spiritual 
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It was by this spiritual law which is separate and 
distinct from all natural law that Moses — the Prophets 
and the Apostles — knew God. It was through this spir- 
itual law that they communed with God; the spiritual 
man is a part of the spiritual universe and is governed by 
spiritual law and not material law, and by means of this 
spiritual law the spiritual man can commune with and 
know the Spiritual Universe — God. 

It was the spiritual man — Abraham — through his 
spiritual senses, by means of spiritual law and not the 
material man, Abram, who communed with God. Abram's 
name was changed to Abraham, that he was elevated 
above the senses of the physical. It was the spiritual 
man — Jacob — by means of the spiritual law and with 
his spiritual senses, who wrestled with the angels and 
communed with and knew God. It was the spiritual man 
— Moses — by means of the spiritual senses and spiritual 
law who communed with God and talked with God. It 
was not the material man — Moses — with his material 
senses who saw and talked with God. It was Moses — 
the spiritual man on Mt. Sinai and not Moses the ma- 
terial man who beheld the Glory and the Power of God — 
the Spiritual Universe. It was Moses the spiritual man 
that God revealed Himself to and not Moses the material 
man. 

After Adam and Eve — the first man and the first 
woman — had satisfied their sexual lust and God spoke 
to them, it was the spiritual man and the spiritual woman 
— their spiritual individualities — their souls — and not 
the material man and woman whom God addressed. It 
was their Spirits that He spoke unto and not their material 
natures; and, it was their spiritual natures and spiritual 
individualities by means of the spiritual senses and 
spiritual law that were conscious of the sin that the ma- 
terial man had committed. It was their spiritual natures 
by means of the spiritual senses that knew good from evil 
and knew that they were naked. The material man and 
woman — Adam and Eve — had no spiritual consciousness 
that the material man had violated any spiritual law 
when they had satisfied their sexual lust, but it was their 
spiritual natures and individualities that were conscious 
that the material man was at enmity with the spiritual 
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with the laws of the spiritual man. It was the mortal 
mind within them that condemned the soul — the sex — of 
the mortal creation that drove the soul out and from the 
presence of God. 

It was by the spiritual law and by means of the 
spiritual senses that the Prophets communed with God 
and God revealed Himself unto them and they were able 
to see, to understand and to foretell spiritual things and 
spiritual truths. It was by means of this spiritual law 
and the spiritual senses that Ezekiel communed with God 
and God spoke unto him and he saw the dry bones turned 
into moving creatures. It was the spiritual man — Ezekiel 
— and not the material man who saw these things. By 
this same spiritual law and the spiritual senses Elijah 
was translated showing the absolute supremacy of the 
spiritual universe and the spiritual law over material 
creation and natural law. 

It was David — the spiritual man by means of the 
spiritual law and the spiritual senses — who knew God 
and the Spiritual Universe and was conscious of the sins 
of David — the material man. David — the material man 
— followed the law of lust and the carnal mind. David — 
the spiritual man — knew God and the Spiritual Universe. 

Paul saw the Saviour with his spiritual eyes. It was 
not Paul — the material man — unto whom Christ appeared 
and spoke. Paul — the material man — was persecuting 
the Saints. Paul — the spiritual man — saw with spiritual 
eyes, the vision of spiritual things and became Paul the 
Apostle and understood the spiritual law and spiritual 
things and communed with God through and by means 
of the spiritual law and spiritual senses. John saw the 
New Jerusalem — the Holy City — not with material eyes, 
but with spiritual eyes. It was John — the spiritual man — 
to whom God revealed Himself; not John the material 
man. 

The Spiritual Universe and material creation are 
governed entirely by different laws. The spiritual man 
and the material man are different creations. The 
spiritual man has his spiritual mind and spiritual laws — 
senses. The material man has his mortal mind — material 
senses — and is governed by material laws. 

The Spiritual Universe is absolutely supreme over 
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versal Intelligence, the Creator. The material universe 
is governed by material laws and is the creature. 

The spiritual is supreme over the material. 

The casting of the Hebrew children into the fire with- 
out injury or hurt was a demonstration of the supremacy 
of the spiritual over the material creation and the spiritual 
law over the material law. When God commanded Moses 
to pick up the serpent and it turned to a rod and to throw 
it down again and it would return to a serpent, He demon- 
strated the truth of the supremacy of spiritual over the 
material creation. The transalation of Elijah demon- 
strated the same spiritual law and truth. The appear- 
ance of Jesus in the upper chamber to His apostles demon- 
strated the supremacy of Christ— the Perfect Spiritual 
Individuality — over Jesus, the material man. The Resur- 
rection demonstrated the same law and truth. When the 
soul comes into its own spiritually — the material — the 
physical senses disappear. 

When Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead He in- 
voked the supremacy of the spiritual over the material 
creation and demonstrated the truth that the Universal 
Spirtual Intelligence is absolutely supreme over the mat- 
erial creation and that it was Lazarus, the material man, 
that was dead accoridng to material law, but that Lazarus, 
the spiritual man, still lived; that Lazarus, the spiritual 
man, a spiritual individuality, still existed in spiritual 
consciousness as a part of the Spiritual Universe accord- 
ing to the spiritual senses and spiritual law. 

The supremacy of the Universal Spiritual Intelli- 
gence was not only revealed to man through revelation, 
but is demonstrated by natural law. All material crea- 
tion demonstrates a Universal Intelligence as the creative 
force: the mineral, the vegetable and the animal king- 
doms of the material creation are governed by certain 
fixed rules and laws — by system and not chaos — and all 
demonstrate that the Creative Force is an Intelligent 
Power. 

The material creation is governed by the law of 
the survival of the fittest which is contrary to the gov- 
erning force of the spiritual universe and spiritual law 
and to spiritual things — demonstrating that the material 
creation is contrary to and at war with the spiritual uni- 
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72 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

The spiritual man is a separate and distinct individ- 
uality from the material man. He is subject to the spir- 
itual law and to the spiritual senses; whereas, the material 
man is subject to the material law and the material senses. 

The spiritual universe is everywhere present — it is 
the Universal Spiritual Intelligence — God. The spiritual 
man through the spiritual laws and spiritual senses is 
conscious of the ever presence of the Universal Spiritual 
Intelligence — God. In proportion as the spiritual man 
opens his spiritual eyes, spiritual ears, and spiritual senses 
and subjects his spiritual Ego to the spiritual law; in 
that proportion does he become more conscious of the 
ever presence of the Universal Spiritual Intelligence — 
God; in that proportion does he become spiritual and 
commune with God; and as he becomes more and more 
spiritual through his spiritual senses and under spiritual 
law, he denies more and more the material man and the 
material law and becomes less and less carnal minded and 
less and less subject to the material creation and the 
material man. The more the spiritual man becomes 
spiritual and under the spiritual law and subject to the 
spiritual senses, the less power the material man and the 
material creation have over the spiritual man and thus 
by means of the spiritual law and the spiritual senses, 
the spiritual man can become more and more conscious 
of the Spiritual Universe around him and flee from the 
bondage of the material man and material creation. 
Spirituality is a continual development of the spiritual man 
by means of the spiritual law and the spiritual senses; 
a continual development of life and freedom. The material 
man is Death, but the spiritual man is Life and Light 
with endless and eternal growing Life and Light. 

The perfection of this spiritual life in perfect har- 
mony with the Universal Spiritual Intelligence was repre- 
sented in Christ, the Perfect Spiritual Conception, and 
not in Jesus, the material man. That is what Jesus meant 
when He said, "He that has seen Me has seen the Father 
who sent Me"; that is, the spiritual man as a spiritual 
Ego who has seen and known Me — the Christ — through his 
spiritual senses and spiritual consciousness; has seen the 
Spiritual Universe with his spiritual eyes; has taken into 
his spiritual consciousness the ever presence of the Uni- 
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"I and My Father are one/' He meant that He was in 
perfect harmony with the spiritual laws of the Universal 
Spiritual Intelligence. When he said, "I came that you 
might have life and have it more abundant," He meant 
that man, the spiritual Ego, might enter into a full and 
complete spiritual consciousness through the spiritual 
senses and spiritual laws with the ever presence of the 
Spiritual Universe, the Universal Spiritual Intelligence — 
God. And when He said, "He that believeth on me shall 
never perish, but shall have everlasting life," He meant 
that the spiritual man with his spiritual senses and spir- 
itual understanding through spiritual law, who denied 
the material man, the carnal law and the carnal mind 
and entered into the complete and full consciousness of 
the ever presence of the Universal Spiritual Intelligence — 
God — should grow in Light and Life — Spiritual Light 
and Spiritual Life — throughout the eternal ages. 

Spirit is Life and Light — the Eternal Life and the 
Eternal Light. The material man, the material creation 
is darkness and death and destruction. As we come into 
the Light and Life — Darkness and Death leave the soul. 



CHAPTER IX. 

THE SEED OF THE SERPENT AND THE SEED 
OF THE WOMAN. 

The correct understanding of Genesis 3: 14 to 16 is 
absolutely necessary to comprehend the remainder of 
the Bible. The whole mystery of the Bible is locked up 
in these three verses. They are the key that unlocks the 
truth to God's word and His revelation to man. "The 
seed of the serpent," mentioned in verse 15 of said chapter 
is the physical man who is conceived in lust and the ser- 
pent is "Satan" — the Devil; that is to say, the lustful 
nature of the physical man which represents the spiritual 
attributes of the Fallen Angels — who rebelled against 
God's kingdom and were cast out of heaven. And the 
serpent's seed here is the flesh — the evil thoughts and 
the carnal desires of the sex senses of the mortal creation. 
"The seed of the woman," mentioned in verse 15 of said 
chapter, is the spiritual man whom God created in His 
own image and is represented in the Immaculate and 
Supernatural Conception of Jesus centuries thereafter; 
Christ being Perfect Spirit manifested in the flesh without 
lust and therefore without sin. The spiritual man whom 
God created in His image is manifested in the flesh 
through the law of lust of the material man and therefore 
takes into his spiritual nature the attributes of the law 
of lust of the Fallen Angels who rebelled against God's 
kingdom and therefore the necessity of the Atonement by 
the Christ who was Perfect Spirit manifested in the flesh 
without the law of lust. The correct understanding of 
this verse is necessary to understand the dual creation — 
the "Fall of Man"; the "Atonement" and the "Redemp- 
tion." And the correct interpretation of this verse de- 
clares marriage to be a fleshly institution — and the con- 
ception of the physical man anti-spiritual ; yet, scholastic 
theology has made marriage and the physical conception 

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and birth a Sacrament of the church and spiritual in their 
natures. Of course, this idea came from the Pagan 
religions — which appealed to the taste and lust of the 
physical senses of the natural man and was adopted into 
Christianity by the priesthood and theologians — teaching 
a physical god to the physical senses of the natural man. 
'The wolf and the lamb shall feed together and the lion 
shall eat straw like the bullock and the dust shall be the 
serpent's meat" (Isaiah 65: 25). The serpent here is the 
same serpent mentioned in Genesis 3: 15, and means the 
lust of the physical man — his conception and birth — the 
mortal mind, the sex senses. "Ye serpents; ye genera- 
tion of vipers; how can ye escape the damnation of hell"? 
(Matt. 23:33). Here Jesus refers to the same serpent, 
meaning, of course, the sex nature of the material man 
who is conceived in lust. And he asks how can the spir- 
itual man who has taken into his spiritual nature the lust 
of the physical man escape hell; that is, how can he es- 
cape spiritual death? The "Serpent" meaning, of course, 
the lust of the physical man which represents the spiritual 
nature of the Fallen Angels. 

Then Saul, who also is called Paul, filled with the 
Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him and said: "Full of all 
subtility and all mischief, thou child of the devil; thou 
enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert 
the right ways of the Lord" (Acts 13: 10). Here Paul 
refers to the sex nature of the physical man who is con- 
ceived in lust as a child of the devil; thereby meaning 
that the lust of the natural man represents the spiritual 
state of all that is anti-God and anti-spiritual; and the 
evil works of this world are the children of the lust senses 
of the natural man whom Paul terms the devil. "He 
that committeth sin is of the devil, for the devil sinneth 
from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was 
manifested that He might destroy the works of the devil" 
(1 John 3:8). Here John refers to the lust and sex 
nature of the natural man as "the devil" and declares that 
the devil sinned in the beginning and Adam and Eve 
yielded to the lust of the natural man and for the purpose 
of destroying the Devil's power in the spiritual nature 
and consciousness of the spiritual man whom God created 
in His image, the Son of God was manifested in the flesh 
without lust or the passions of the natural man. "They 



76 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

shall lick the dust like a serpent; they shall move out of 
their holes like worms of the earth; they shall be afraid 
of the Lord our God and shall fear because of thee" 
(Micah 7: 17). Here the Prophet refers to the heathen 
nations who worship the sex senses of the physical man, 
and declares that this physical man who is conceived in 
lust shall lick dust like a serpent. It is the serpent here 
which represents the anti-spiritual nature of the conception 
of the physical man. "And the God of peace shall bruise 
Satan under your feet shortly" (Romans 16: 20). Here 
Paul treats Satan as the serpent who deceived the woman 
in the garden of Eden, i. e., he declares Satan to be the 
lust of the natural man and that God will destroy this 
lustful nature from the spiritual life of His children. That 
is, He will cast out the devil as Christ did when He was 
on earth. "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers 
of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of 
the same; that through death He might destroy him that 
had the power of death, that is, the devil" (Heb. 2: 14). 
Here Paul declares that the Christ was manifested in the 
flesh without lust that he might destroy the power of 
death — the devil — in the spiritual nature and conscious- 
ness of the spiritual man — the soul. The "devil" here 
mentioned means the same poisonous reptile mentioned 
in Genesis 3: 15, the lust of the physical man which is 
spiritual death. "And there was a war in heaven: Michael 
and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon 
fought and his angels and prevailed not; neither was their 
place found any more in Heaven. And the great dragon 
was cast out, that old serpent called the Devil; and 
Satan which deceiveth the whole world; he was cast out 
into the earth and his angels were cast out with him. And 
I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salva- 
tion and strength and the kingdom of our God and the 
power of His Christ for the accuser of our brethren is 
cast down, which accused them before our God day and 
night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, 
and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not 
their lives unto death" (Rev. 12: 7-11). Here John in 
his vision saw the same dragon, the same serpent, that 
appeared to the woman in the Garden of Eden — the lust 
of the physical man — and he and his angels fought against 
Michael and his angels; that is, the power and the lust 



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and the sex nature of the natural man fought against the 
spiritual nature and power of the spiritual man; and the 
old dragon called the Devil and Satan was cast out of 
heaven; i. e., the lust of the natural man was cast out of 
the spiritual nature of the spiritual man through the spir- 
itual and saving power and atonement of the Christ, 
who was manifested in the flesh without the lust of the 
natural man. We have thus far been dealing with the 
lust of natural man who is conceived in lust and who is 
contrary to God and God's spiritual kingdom and the 
power of the natural man and his law of lust over the 
spiritual man which is manifested in the flesh by the law 
of lust. But God said in Genesis 3 : 15, that he would put 
enmity between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the 
woman, i. e., enmity between the natural man who is 
conceived in lust and the spiritual man whom God created 
in His image and who partook of the nature of the natural 
man by being manifested in the flesh by virtue of the law 
of lust and who would be reconciled to God by the atone- 
ment of the Christ who would be manifested in the flesh 
and born of a woman without the law of lust. "And a 
voice from heaven saying, this is my beloved son in whom 
I am well pleased' ' (John 3: 17). This was the Christ 
and was the seed of the woman referred to in Genesis 
3: 15 and whom God said that He would put enmity be- 
tween His spiritual nature and the lustful nature of the 
physical man. "The field is the world, the good seed are 
the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the chil- 
dren of the wicked one" (Matt. 13: 38). Here Jesus de- 
clares the children whom God made in His image and who 
are redeemed from the lust by the atonement are the 
children of the kingdom, but the tares are the children of 
the wicked one, i. e., the fruit of the lust of the physical 
man. "The Lord has sworn in truth unto David; he 
will not turn from it; of the fruit of thy body will I set 
upon thy throne" (Psalm 132: 11). "The fruit of thy 
body," was the Christ who was to be conceived of a woman 
without a natural father and who was to sit on the spir- 
itual throne of God's kingdom. He was the seed of the 
woman referred to in Genesis 3: 15 and Who was to be 
the Redeemer of God's children created in His image and 
manifested in the flesh by the law of lust. "Therefore, 
the Lord himself shall give you a sign: behold a virgin 



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shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name 
Immanuel" (Isa. 7: 14). Immanuel was the seed of the 
woman referred to in Genesis 3:15 and who was to be the 
Chief Priest and Redeemer of all of God's children whom 
God created in His image who avail themselves of His 
atoning and saving power. "Behold! a virgin shall be 
with child and shall bring forth a son" (Matt. 1 : 23) . This 
Son was the Christ prophesied of by the prophets who 
would come to redeem God's children from bondage and 
slavery to the natural man. He was the seed of the woman 
mentioned in Genesis 3:15. He is the High Priest of the 
spiritual man — the Atoning and Saving Power of the 
spiritual man from the carnal nature of the natural 
man. He was conceived without lust and manifested 
in the flesh without a natural father and the law of lust 
never entered his perfect spiritual nature nor destroyed 
His divine power; hence, He could cast out devils — the 
carnal thoughts of the sex nature of the flesh — i. e., He 
could destroy the power of lust and the natural man within 
the consciousness of the spiritual man — who is manifested 
in the flesh by the law of lust and the carnal mind of the 
natural man. God put enmity between the spiritual nature 
of God's spiritual children saved by His atoning power 
and the lust of the natural man, which represents the 
anti-spiritual nature — power and nature of the fallen 
angels who rebelled against God's spiritual kingdom. 

The conception of the physical man and his birth, 
is in conflict with God's spiritual nature — His Kingdom, 
His Christ and His spiritual children. You cannot har- 
monize the nature of the natural man and the nature of 
the spiritual man. All of the scholastic theology of the 
ages and the theologians of all time may declare marriage 
to be holy and the natural conception and birth spiritual, 
but they cannot make it a spiritual truth in God's spir- 
itual kingdom. The correct understanding and com- 
prehension that the natural conception and birth is con- 
trary to God's spiritual kingdom and that the spiritual 
man is at war with the natural man is the key which un- 
locks the door to God's spiritual Temple and kingdom. 

The "Seed of the Serpent" is the material man 
with his sex nature of lust; the "Seed of the Woman" is 
The Christ manifested in the flesh without a natural 
father; and God's spiritual children of whom Christ is 



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the Chief Priest. Marriage is moral here in this mortal 
creation, but not spiritual — it is of the seed of the serpent 
— lust — the seed of the serpent is every evil thought that 
the sex and lust senses of the mortal creation generate in 
the soul. The Seed of the Woman — the Christ — is every 
good thought that eminates from the soul, and is spiritual 
and reaches the throne of God. 



CHAPTER X. 
THE CARNAL MIND AND THE SPIRITUAL MIND. 

Man has a carnal mind and a spiritual mind. The 
mind of the soul and the mind of the sex, and lust senses. 
The mind of the soul is the real man and the immortal 
mind. Paul says, "that our warfare is not carnal but mighty 
through God to the putting down of strongholds; cast- 
ing down imaginations and every high thing that exalteth 
itself against the knowledge of God and bring into cap- 
tivity every thought to the obedience to Christ/ ' Here the 
Apostle clearly recognizes the natural and the spiritual 
man and this dual man — the material and spiritual man — 
has the dual mind, the carnal or mortal mind, and the 
spiritual mind or immortal or soul mind. 

These two minds or dual intellectual natures may 
be termed "Innate and Educated intelligence.' ' The In- 
nate mind is born with the spiritual man. It is a part 
of the intelligence of the Universal Spiritual Intelligence. 
The child, the mature man and the old man has this in- 
nate intelligence governing his spiritual nature and in- 
dividuality in full force at all times. Youth, middle 
age nor old age does not change it. It never sleeps and 
is always present as a governing force and guiding power 
of man's spiritual individuality. 

The educated mind or the carnal mind is the product 
of the material man and changes with the material man. 
It is the product of the atomic friction of matter and the 
chemical properties of matter as energized by spiritual 
force and intelligence. These two minds co-ordinate and 
reflect upon each other and influence each other. The 
educated mind reflects upon the innate mind through the 
nerve cells — the unit of material life — by means of the 
co-ordination of the spiritual and material creation and 
the innate or spiritual mind reflects upon the material or 
educated mind by means of co-ordination and energizes 

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through the nerve cells and the nerve system producing 
material life in the material man. As long as there is life 
in the material man there is co-ordination going on between 
the spiritual mind and the carnal mind or the innate and 
the educated mind. In fact there is only one mind — the 
soul or immortal mind, but two manifestations — the 
spiritual and the carnal — and when the soul reflects the 
spiritual image of the Father as spirit, the mortal mind 
becomes unreal. 

"Nature," "sub-consciousness," "intuition' ' and "in- 
stinct" are terms frequently used by writers in describing 
the innate mind which is nothing other than the spiritual 
mind or spiritual intelligence. This spiritual intelligence 
or spiritual mind interprets the spiritual senses and spir- 
itual law and discerns and knows spiritual things and sug- 
gests and guides man while in his dual existence to con- 
form himself with natural and spiritual laws so as to 
preserve his dual existence intact. The educated mind 
or the carnal mind grows and develops with the material 
senses of the physical man. The educated mind deals 
with the physical senses of the material man and the 
material creation. This educated or carnal mind cannot 
know spiritual things and comprehend and understand 
spiritual intelligence. It has no discernment of the spir- 
itual senses. It only discerns and knows the laws of the 
carnal man and the material creation. The innate or 
spiritual mind knows and discerns spiritual things, spir- 
itual laws — the spiritual senses and the spiritual universe; 
hence these two minds are constantly at war with each 
other and that is what Paul meant when he said: "The 
carnal mind is at enmity with God." And that is what 
the Bible means when it teaches us that the carnal mind 
cannot know God. It was with this spiritual mind that 
Paul saw the Christ, and John saw the New Jerusalem, 
the Holy City, the City of Soul and Spirit, and that is 
what the Bible means when it teaches us that spiritual 
things are spiritually discerned. The carnal mind fades 
away as the soul returns to Eden, the Image of God as 
Spirit and Life. 

As man in his dual nature surrenders to the carnal 
mind or the educated mind and permits it with its physi- 
cal senses to control and dominate over the innate or 
spiritual mind and to close upon the spiritual senses — 



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to that extent does he become carnal minded, materialistic 
and less spiritual; to that extent does the material man 
with material laws dominate over the spiritual man and 
the spiritual senses and the spiritual law. 

In proportion as man denies the carnal mind with 
his physical senses and natural law, and opens his spirit- 
ual mind spiritual senses and invites the spiritual 
universe in and partakes of spiritual intelligence, in that 
proportion does he deny the carnal mind and reduce the 
power of the material man over the spiritual man and 
become more spiritual minded. Moses and the Prophets 
had to deal with these two minds. The Children of 
Israel would deny the spiritual mind and partake of the 
carnal things; they would close the eyes of the spiritual 
mind and open the eyes of the carnal mind and Moses and 
the Prophets would have to cry aloud, "Back! back! 
Israel to your tents." Moses and the Prophets were con- 
tinually, in the name of the "Great I Am That I Am," 
demanding that the Children of Israel deny the carnal 
mind and open up the senses of the spiritual mind 
and invite into their consciousness the presence of 
the Universal Spiritual Intelligence — God. David, of all 
the house of Israel, seems to have had the greatest battle 
with these two minds — the war between them seems to 
have been continually raging within him; today he was 
yielding to the carnal mind with all the power of his 
fleshly lust and tomorrow he was crying out for spiritual 
power to enable him to deny the carnal mind and the ma- 
terial man and open his spiritual eyes and spiritual vision 
that he might see, understand and enjoy the ever presence 
of the spiritual ever-living God. The carnal mind is the 
sex and lust senses, and this mind is the veil that separates 
the soul from God. 

The carnal mind is of a material nature and the 
source of its evil is located in the sexual organs, the sex senses 
and the lust senses of the brain — the means by which 
the material man is conceived and created. The brain 
and the sexual organs are part of the same general nerve 
system and are connected by the spinal cord, co-ordinate 
and control the entire nerve system of the material man. 
When the child is born he has so many nerve cells within 
him; these nerve cells are the unit of material life and they 
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spiritual intelligence uses them to generate material life 
during the natural life of the man. As the child grows into 
maturity, these nerve cells are taken up and expanded 
throughout the body. They act as conductors, just as 
wires act as conductors for electricity, for the innate in- 
telligence of the universal mind to communicate power and 
energy into the material man causing atomic and mole- 
cular motion and metabolism in the body. This natural 
science terms "nerve energy/' As this nerve energy or 
force continues to operate in the body and cause material 
life by means of atomic or molecular motion a continual 
combustion takes place in the body and these nerve cells 
are consumed. If the material man lives out his natural 
life without sickness or disease, he lives until the reserve 
force of these nerve cells has been consumed and there is 
no longer a supply of nerve cells for the innate intelligence 
of the universal mind to telegraph life and energy over and 
into the material man — then the material man dies. 

Nerve tissue may perish and rebuild with the other 
changes of the body — but nerve cells — the unit of organic 
animal life do not rebuild. When consumed dissolution 
takes place. 

All material creation is governed by spiritual law 
— the creative force. The mineral kingdom is lower than 
the vegetable kingdom in the essence of physical life and 
the vegetable kingdom is lower than the animal kingdom 
of physical life. The various elements of matter are pro- 
portioned in organic life in the vegetable kingdom so as 
to be assimilated by the animal kingdom according to 
material organic law and to produce physical life in the 
animal kingdom. The mineral kingdom is foreign to the 
animal kingdom and according to organic physical law 
cannot ordinarily be assimilated by the animal kingdom 
into organic material life. It is poisonous to the animal 
kingdom and destructive to the physical life in the animal 
kingdom. When the animal kingdom takes matter into 
the material system or body that is not organic and life- 
giving and not in proportion so as to be assimilated, it 
becomes a foreign substance and poisonous. When a man, 
a part of the animal kingdom, fails to assimilate matter 
taken into his body, it becomes poisonous. It is termed 
"autotoxemia," self -poisoning. 

The life-giving force which causes assimilation to go 
on in man and the animal kingdom and physical life to 



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be produced in mind and is conducted over the nerve 
system by the nerve system. This law of assimilation of 
matter into physical life shows and demonstrates that there 
is an Intelligence directing the law governing the material 
creation. 

The properties of this material creation and the func- 
tions of organic material life constitute the carnal mind 
and are foreign to spiritual life — and no part of spiritual 
intelligence. Organic life function by virtue of the force 
of mind. 

This carnal mind ebbs and flows with the tide of 
matter and organic material life. It differentiates the 
sexes in the material creation — the male from the female — 
it is in the sexual organs — the sex senses — and is controlled 
by the brain — the lust senses. The voice of the male as 
it differentiates from the voice of the female is due to the 
sexual organs — the sex senses — and the carnal mind — 
the lust senses — and that which differentiates the female 
and her voice from the male is due to her sexual organs 
and her carnal mind — the sex and lust senses. The 
male's and the female's carnal minds — on account of 
the sexual organs — sex senses — are opposite of each other 
and therefore attract each other. It is the carnal mind 
and not the spiritual mind that draws the male and the 
female together and causes the reproduction of the ma- 
terial man and thus the material man is conceived in sin 
and contrary to the law of the Spirit and is in rebellion 
against the spiritual universe and God. 

This carnal mind is more fiendish in the female than 
in the male and more brutal in the male than in the 
female. Where is a student of human nature who has 
not observed the mighty ocean of fiendishness as it roared 
and tossed and foamed and beat and raged in the sexual 
prejudice, jealousy and passion of the female when she 
thought she was losing her control and power over the 
male that appealed to her carnal mind and sexual nature? 
Where is the student of human nature who has not ob- 
served the brute within the male when his animal nature 
and sexual lust were aroused to a consuming fire by the 
female that appealed to his brutal nature — who would 
not sacrifice finance, social position, honor and even life 
itself to obliterate all between him and her and yield his 



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all — honor, morals, and spiritual life to the fangs of her 
deadly poison. 

This carnal mind is the "Mortal Mind" and is the 
mind of the "Devil" of scholastic theology. It has no 
life within itself; it is of a material nature and when 
dissolution takes place, ceases to co-ordinate with the 
innate or spiritual mind — the soul. The ever presence of 
this carnal mind, co-ordinating with the spiritual mind 
while the material man and the spiritual man are intact, 
constitutes the source of evil and the ever-living Devil 
during the life of the material man. It is a personal pres- 
ence and is in conflict with the spiritual nature of every 
human being living in the flesh. 

The consciousness of the presence of this carnal 
mind is the consciousness of an ever present evil power. 
Heaven and hell begin here while man exists in his dual 
state. Heaven and hell are states of consciousness. As 
you take into your state of consciousness spirituality and 
spiritual life, you are entering into the spiritual kingdom. 
As you take into your state of consciousness the nature of 
the carnal mind— darkness and death, you are entering 
into Hell. He who permits evil to enter his state of con- 
sciousness is shutting out spiritual light and life and clos- 
ing the doors of Heaven against himself. He that 
closes the door of the soul to the carnal mind — darkness 
and evil — from his spiritual consciousness, is opening the 
door to the spiritual temple and taking in spiritual life 
and light into his consciousness . 

The gates of the New Jerusalem are swinging open 
to him ; that is what is meant in the story of Lazarus when 
the Bible teaches us: "There is a great gulf between me 
and thee." One was in the state of consciousness of the 
darkness and the other in the state of consciousness of the 
state of light — the vail of the sex and lust senses of the 
mortal creation separated them in soul life. That is what 
Jesus meant when he said: "The kingdom of heaven is 
within you." That is, that you have within your state 
of consciousness, or spiritual light and understanding that 
which enables you to understand and appreciate and 
comprehend spiritual things and spiritual truths. That 
is what the Bible means when it teaches the presence of a 
personal devil — that is, a state of consciousness clouded 
with darkness by the carnal mind and nature so that 



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spiritual light is excluded and darkness rather than light 
reigns in the state of consciousness. Heaven and Hell 
begin here with man while in his dual state and work out 
their laws in man's state of consciousness throughout 
the ages of eternity. 

To the extent that man takes into his state of con- 
sciousness the carnal mind and darkness here, to that 
extent does that state of darkness enter into his state of 
consciousness when the dissolution takes place and his 
spiritual individuality is released from co-ordination 
with the material man. The consciousness of the sex — 
and lust senses — that separated the soul from God here 
is still in the soul and separates the soul from God over 
there. And as he enters the spiritual realm, this state 
of consciousness is his state of consciousness there and he 
must work out his spiritual state of consciousness accord- 
ing to spiritual laws and spiritual life. The law of com- 
pensation of the carnal and spiritual minds — of material 
error and spiritual truth — is unerring and just. God is 
truth — the sex and lust senses is error. Man cannot enter 
the state of consciousness of murder and death and at the 
same time enjoy the state of consciousness of spiritual 
truth, light and life. When he takes into his state of 
consciousness lust, hatred, malice, greed, murder and 
death he must pay the penalty to the spiritual law of life 
and light. 

Salvation is the final overcoming of material error 
by spiritual truth; of carnal darkness by spiritual light; 
of material death by spiritual life. It is the triumph of 
the spiritual life over death ; a state of spiritual conscious- 
ness of light and life over a state of carnal consciousness 
of darkness and death — the triumph of Spirit over matter. 
That is what the Crucifixion and the Resurrection mean. 
The delivering the soul from the death of the sex and 
lust senses of the flesh is salvation. 

This carnal mind is destructive of spiritual life. 
That is what the Bible means when it teaches us "It is 
hard for the rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven," 
that is, his nature is given up to carnal things and he con- 
tinually permits his carnal mind to destroy his spiritual 
nature and does not enter into the consciousness of a 
spiritual state. On the other hand, the carnal mind cannot 
destroy spiritual light where a state of spiritual conscious- 



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ness excludes the carnal mind and carnal things. That is 
what the Bible means when it says: "Unless you become 
as a little child you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven." 
It does not mean that the material nature of the child is 
spiritual, but that the child's sex senses have not matured 
and entered into his carnal nature and that his carnal mind 
and nature have not sufficiently matured to be all power- 
ful and masterfulover the spiritual nature — the soul — and 
to destroy the spiritual life and the power of the innate or 
spiritual mind — the soul. Jesus meant to teach by this illus- 
tration that to enter into the spiritual consciousness of spir- 
itual things and spiritual truths, the state of the carnal 
consciousness must be absent. The little child has not 
reached the age of puberty, and is therefore innocent 
of the inherent sin and the sex senses. 

This carnal mind is ever grasping after the material 
things and carnal laws; it does not understand the spir- 
itual. The spiritual or innate mind comprehends only 
spiritual things. That is what Jesus meant when He 
said, "I thank thee, Father; thou has hidden these 
things from the wise and revealed them unto babes," 
i. e., that He thanked the Father that He had hidden 
spiritual things and spiritual truths from the worldly- 
wise — the carnal mind and carnal laws — the sex mind 
of the mortal creation — and revealed them only unto the 
spiritual or innate mind and to be comprehended only by 
the spiritual senses, for the child only knows this mind of 
spirit. Jesus here compares the carnal mind and natural 
laws to the worldly-wise — the mind of the flesh — and 
thanks the Father that spiritual things are not revealed 
unto them; and compares the spiritual mind and spirit- 
ual senses to little babes who are not conscious of the 
sex senses and lust senses, and thanks the Father that 
spiritual things are only revealed unto the spiritual mind 
and the spiritual senses. He thanks the Father that spir- 
itual things are not revealed to the carnal mind — the sex 
mind — and matter, but only unto the spiritual mind and 
Spirit — the Soul. 

The fruits of this carnal or natural mind are lust, 
greed, avarice, malice, hatred, jealousy, viciousness, 
murder and death. It has directed the sons of men as 
they kept step with the drum beat of martial music and 
marched to slaughter, murder and death and drenched 



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the earth with the blood of human beings throughout 
the ages. This serpent within man is ever at war with the 
soul. 

The fruit of the innate or spiritual mind is love, peace, 
joy and life. It has directed a constant protest against 
the acts of the carnal mind of men and ca led men to a 
state of love and peace. It is the Divine mind and man 
was originally commanded to bring forth the fruit of 
this mind and to subdue the earth — the flesh — the mind 
of the serpent. 



CHAPTER XL 
THE CARNAL MIND— SICKNESS AND DISEASE 

"The soul that sinneth shall die." That is what God 
told Adam and Eve in the Garden — that the moment the 
soul tasted in thought and act the consciousness of the 
sex and lust senses, that the soul should be separated from 
God in mind and thought and die. There was no death 
until sin — lust — entered the consciousness of the soul. 
"The wages of sin is death." He that indulges the lust 
of the flesh shall die. He who lets his carnal mind or 
natural mind control him and become the governing 
force of his life is partaking of spiritual and physical 
death. As he takes the nature of the carnal mind into 
his consciousness, he partakes of spiritual death. The 
carnal mind is darkness, the spiritual mind is light, and 
he who opens the consciousness of the soul and invites 
the carnal mind to make his consciousness its habitation, 
takes into his consciousness darkness, sin and death. 
As the carnal mind enters the state of consciousness, it 
drives from that consciousness the light and life of the 
Spirit; the carnal mind and the spiritual mind cannot 
entertain the same state of consciousness. The carnal 
mind cannot know the spiritual mind and the spiritual 
mind cannot know the carnal mind. Matter cannot know 
the Spirit and Spirit cannot know matter; they occupy 
different realms and are foreign to each other. While 
they influence each other by the law of co-ordination in 
controlling man in his dual state, yet they are foreign 
to each other. They are strangers and cannot get ac- 
quainted with each other. 

And he that takes this carnal mind into his state of 
consciousness partakes of the spirit of death; and that 
is what the Bible means when it says: "The soul that 
sinneth shall die," i. e. ; the soul or Spirit, which takes into 
its state of consciousness the carnal mind, that is, lust, 

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jealousy, hatred, malice and murder destroys the law of 
the Spirit and spiritual senses and partakes of spiritual 
death. That soul has sinned against the Spirit, the law 
of the Spirit, the spiritual senses and the state of spiritual 
consciousness and has partaken of spiritual death; that is 
has driven out spiritual light and spiritual life from the 
state of consciousness to the extent that it has taken into 
the state of consciousness the carnal mind with its fruits, 
i. e., the desire for lust, greed, hatred, malice and murder. 
As the state of the carnal mind comes into the state of 
consciousness, the state of the spiritual mind goes out of 
the state of consciousness and that is what Holy Writ 
means when it says: "The soul that sinneth shall die." 
The flesh is death — the Spirit is life. Physical disease and 
death are the result of sin and exist in the mortal mind 
only — in the mind of the lust and sex senses — overcome 
sin absolutely as did Christ and you overcome death, as 
did the Christ. There is no sin except in the sex of the 
mortal creation. Overcome the lust of the flesh absolutely 
as did the Christ, and you have all power over sin, disease 
and death, as He did. 

"The wages of sin is death." This not only means 
that he that partakes of the carnal mind dies spiritually, 
but also physically and materially. Material life is main- 
tained in the physical man by vitality being collected in 
and generated by the brain and sent down the spinal 
cord and over the nervous system maintaining metabolism 
in the human body and physical life. All sickness and 
disease in the physical man are primarily due to a disar- 
ranged or weak nerve system. As this vital current, 
which is generated in the brain and sent like electricity 
flashing over the nervous system, is strengthened or weak- 
ened, you have physical strength or physical weakness in 
the physical man. It is this vital current that causes 
assimilation and elimination to go on continually in the 
physical man. When the physical man takes food into 
his stomach, this vital current generated in the brain and 
sent out over the nervous system, controls the law of 
assimilation and the physical man takes up such of the 
substance of the food as his body needs and assimilates 
it and throws off or eliminates so much thereof as the body 
does not need and thus continually is rebuilding the 
physical man. As this constructive and building force is 



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continually going on, constructing and building material 
life, likewise there is a destructive force continually in 
operation destroying physical life. As new substances are 
assimilated to rebuild the physical man, worn out tissue 
is being thrown off and being eliminated. The vital 
current which is generated in the brain and sent over the 
nervous system producing metabolism in the material man 
controls these laws of assimilation and elimination. If 
the brain is diseased so it will not generate a sufficient vital 
current, or if the nervous system is deranged or weakened 
so it will not carry a sufficient vital current into the ma- 
terial man, then the laws of assimilation and elimination 
are defective; the physical man fails to assimilate his 
food and it becomes a foreign substance to his body and 
poisonous and he fails to eliminate the worn out tissue and 
as it is thrown off in the body it becomes poison to the 
body. Thus assimilation and elimination unimpaired 
must continually go on in the body to preserve physical 
health in the material man. 

When the nervous system is normal and the laws of 
assimilation and elimination are normal and the physical 
man lives out the normal life, the nervous system gradually 
weakens, and assimilation and elimination gradually be- 
come more imperfect and the unassimilated matter taken 
into his system and the dead tissue which is not eliminated 
and thrown off gradually poisons the physical man and 
decay sets in; vitality grows lower and weaker and finally 
dissolution between the physical and spiritual man takes 
place. This is the normal death of the physical man and 
he must die, as he is at enmity with the spiritual man. This 
is the Adam man and all partook of death in the Adam 
man. That is, every material man born of woman is 
conceived in sin. He has death inherently in him ma- 
terially and spiritually — and the material body must 
return to dust and the soul must be quickened into the 
Image of the Father, to ever see God spiritually — sin is 
death — and sin must be abolished to restore life. 

But the death of this physical man can be other 
than normal death. "The wages of sin is death" — and 
the carnal and natural mind is sinful and when followed 
leads to not only the spiritual, but the physical death. 
The carnal and natural mind craves debauchery, drunk- 
enness and lust, which mean both physical and spiritual 



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death. The physical man who indulges in drunkenness 
and alcoholic stimulants and debauchery burns up the 
brain and the nervous system. He destroys the power of 
the brain to generate the vital current and send it over the 
nervous system to produce vitality and life in the physi- 
cal man. He destroys the nervous system so it will not 
act as a conductor in carrying the vital force and current 
into the human body and the laws of assimilation and 
elimination are weakened and impaired and physical 
death is hastened. He destroys the generative force of 
the brain and the vital force of the nervous system and 
the organs of the human body, the heart, the liver, the 
kidneys and the stomach become weakened and diseased 
and physical pain and suffering and death follow. 

The carnal and natural mind with its burning desire 
for lust controls the physical man and is not only destruc- 
tive spiritually, but physically. When the physical man 
yields to the lust of the carnal mind he is giving up his 
physical life as well as his spiritual life. When the sexual 
relations take place the brain and the nervous system 
are weakened by means of the nervous shock; every 
time the sexual relations are indulged in, the brain becomes 
less capacitated to generate the vital current and send it 
out over the nervous system and to produce normal meta- 
bolism in the material body and the nervous system be- 
comes less efficient in carrying the vital current from the 
brain into the body and producing material life. Thus the 
law of material life is violated and thus the material man 
must pay the penalty. When the lust of the carnal mind 
is indulged to gratification, mental and physical weakness, 
sickness and death must follow. The human family, 
in yielding to the law of lust, produces physical weakness, 
mental depravity, insanity, physical death and spiritual 
darkness and spiritual death. The asylums of civilized 
countries are filled with inmates as a result of the law of 
lust. Physical weakness, sickness, pain and suffering 
invade the human family everywhere as the result of 
yielding to the carnal mind and gratifying sexual lust. 
Mental weaklings, imbeciles and lunatics are the mental 
fruits of the law and lust of the carnal mind. 

This mental and physical weakness has been handed 
down from generation to generation and inherited by 
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the human family has become a race wrecked with 
physical pain and suffering and physical and mental 
weakness as a curse for yielding to the carnal mind and 
the law of lust. Jesus taught that sin and physical dis- 
ease go hand in hand. Without sin there would be no 
physical disease and sickness — the cure therefore for physi- 
cal disease is a pure soul — and there is no sin except in 
the sex — overcome the sensual as Jesus did and you over- 
come all disease. 

Moses and the Prophets of Israel dealt with this ques- 
tion. They taught the Children of Israel that yielding to the 
lustful passions of the carnal mind not only consumed the 
spiritual man, but destroyed the physical man. They 
taught the Children of Israel the best hygienic laws this 
world has ever known — hygienic laws to preserve the 
physical man and to develop the spiritual man. Moses and 
the Teachers of Israel taught the Children of Israel that 
to yield to the lust of the carnal mind was not only sinful 
to the spiritual man, but was destructive to the physical 
man. But scholastic theology through false modesty has 
eliminated the teachings of Moses and the Prophets and 
has turned the human family out into the wilderness of 
darkness to be consumed and to be destroyed both physi- 
cally and mentally by the wild beast, Depravity of the 
Carnal Mind and the Lust of the Flesh. 

Materia Medica can temporarily stimulate the 
physical man, but cannot cure him. You may give him 
one poisonous material medicine to counteract another 
poison in his system, but his constitution must pay the 
penalty of over-taxation in order to eliminate the poison 
from the system. Material medicine is not assimilated 
as a part of the system, but simply acts as a foreign sub- 
stance — a poison and a temporary stimulant to be elimi- 
nated from the body by extra taxation on the constitu- 
tion. 

All diseases of the physical man are primarily due 
to a weak nervous system which causes poor assimilation 
and elimination and which in course of time produces dis- 
ease in the human body by way of self poison, weak func- 
tions of the organs and diseased organs of the body. 
And this weak, nervous system is due to sin — it 
may be inherited but it is the result of sin. Sin is the 
result of lust — and lust in thought and act destroys the 
nervous system — it is death. 



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Moses and the Teachers of Israel covered all these 
laws of health of the physical man and the laws of organic 
and inorganic matter — the mineral, animal and vegetable 
kingdoms — in their teachings to the Children of Israel 
as revealed truths. But the modern scholastic theologian 
with his material mind and physical senses has attempted 
to improve upon the revealed law of God as revealed to 
the Teachers of Israel and given as divine instructions by 
them to the Children of Israel 

The modern scholastic theologian has substituted 
for these divine truths the materia medica — the modern 
medical doctor — and the modern human slaughter house 
of our carnal civilization called ' 'hospitals.' ' In substitu- 
ting man's teachings for God's teachings, the carnal mind 
for the spiritual mind, they have erected these slaughter 
houses in which to butcher and slaughter the human 
family in the name of Christianity. When people become 
Christian in Truth, and overcome all sensuality as did 
Jesus, they will need no hospitals and insane institutions. 

If the human family were taught the truths revealed 
to Moses and the Teachers of Israel, the human race 
would have both physical health and spiritual life. The 
orthodox Jew, when he lived up to the teachings of Moses 
and the Elders of Israel, had no slaughter houses in which 
to slaughter and butcher the human family — he had 
physical health and spiritual life. He lived up to the law 
of governing the generative organs, reproducing the physi- 
cal man and preserving the physical man in the state of 
physical health, and subjecting the physical man and the 
carnal mind to the spiritual man and spiritual mind. And 
he had physical health, and physical life and spiritual 
life. The orthodox Jew knew that sickness and sin went 
hand in hand. 

Moses and the Elders of Israel taught moderation in 
all things to their people — temperance to apply to all of 
nature's laws. Not only may the nervous system, the 
brain and the generative organs be injured and destroyed 
by drunkenness and lust and over indulgence of the 
flesh, but by mental worry and too much mental work 
and mental strain and study, the brain, the nervous 
system and the generative organs may be injured and 
ruined. When the natural mind by means of worry and 
study taxes the nervous system, it shuts off the inflowing 



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current of the innate mind which produces life and vitality 
in the physical man and thus the phosphorous of the 
brain and nervous system is consumed and burned out 
faster than it is rebuilt by the innate mind and the vital 
current, thus causing physical, mental and nervous weak- 
ness; hatred and malice and jealousy of the carnal Mind 
and the fleshly nature, will impede the flowing of this 
vital current over the nervous system and impair, in- 
jure and destroy the brain and the nervous system and 
thus destroy the physical man. When the carnal mind 
sends its thoughts of hatred and malice over the nervous 
system from the brain, it shuts out the vital forces, de- 
stroys the nervous system and poisons the physical man. 
Thus the thoughts of the carnal man kill, and the thoughts 
of the spiritual man give life. As the innate mind with 
its vital flowing current is generated in the brain and sent 
out over the nervous system, vitality and material life is 
imparted into the physical man. As this current is shut 
off by the hatred and malice of the carnal mind, the 
nervous system is deranged, the physical man poisoned 
and material life and vitality lowered. Moses and the 
Elders of Israel understood the spiritual and carnal laws 
and taught them to the Children of Israel. All malice and 
greed are in the sex senses, and all sin is in the sex — the 
cause that destroys the nervous system is sin and is in the 
sex senses. 

The carnal mind is Death and the spiritual mind is 
Life. As you take the carnal mind into your consciousness 
you partake of physical and spiritual death — you behold 
matter and darkness. As you take the innate or spiritual 
mind into your consciousness you partake of physical and 
spiritual life. The carnal mind is darkness. The spir- 
itual mind is light. That is what Paul meant when he 
said, "We now see through a glass darkly, but then we 
shall see as we are seen and know as we are known"; i. e., 
that in our dual state here in our best state of spiritual 
consciousness, the carnal mind enters to some degree 
and dims and darkens our spiritual vision, that the vail 
of the sex senses closes the eyes of the soul, but when the 
Spirit is separated from the flesh, we shall enter into a 
state of spiritual consciousness where the carnal mind is 
shut out and shall see spiritual things with spiritual eyes. 



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The veil of the sex senses shall be removed from the eyes 
of the soul and we shall see God face to face. 

Moses and the Elders of Israel taught the Children 
of Israel that the generative organs represented the source 
of physical life and the means of propagating the race and 
the abuse of their functions meant physical death and 
and spiritual death. They taught that to indulge the 
carnal mind and yield to the lustful passions of the flesh 
was not only injurious and destructive to the physical 
man, but to take into the state of consciousness the 
carnal mind and the lust of the flesh was to destroy 
the peace and the light of the state of spiritual conscious- 
ness — the life of the soul. The hygienic and physiological 
laws taught by Moses and the Elders of Israel apply not 
only to the physical man, but to the spiritual man. 
Their teachings were a Revelation from God to man — 
a revelation to the physical and spiritual man. Circum- 
cision had a two-fold meaning — a hygienic and physiolo- 
gical meaning for the physical man and a spiritual mean- 
ing for the spiritual man. 

These leaders of Israel taught the laws of physical 
conception and reproduction. They taught the Children 
of Israel the injurious effect — physically and spiritually — 
of the artificial abuse of the generative organs. 

The orthodox Jew, who lived the life as taught by 
'the Teachers of Israel, was the most healthy and best 
preserved race of all the races and had a longevity that 
no other race has ever had. 

But scholastic theology has eliminated the teachings 
of Moses and the Elders of Israel from theological creeds 
and left the human race to grow into a state of ignorance 
as to the law of physical and spiritual truth. The young 
growing into manhood and womanhood are not taught 
the physiological laws which govern their being and the 
laws which govern the generative organs of reproduction. 
These laws are violated through ignorance. The young 
mother is unprepared for motherhood and soon finds her- 
self a physical wreck with an invalid offspring and does 
not know the reason that caused her deplorable condition. 
She does not understand that her brain and entire ner- 
vous system and generative organs are all connected by 
nerve currents and that which effects her nervous system 
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understand that her moods and temperament, her love 
and her hate, her mental gloom and her mental darkness 
and her spiritual vision are affected by the condition of 
her generative organs — sex and lust senses — and that her 
entire nervous system and brain and physical constitution 
are under the influence of the organs of reproduction. By 
violating nature's laws, the generative organs are injured, 
the nervous system is deranged, the brain is inactive and a 
general physical and mental collapse is the result with an 
invalid offspring as the product. 

The young father does not understand that he and 
his offspring must pay the penalty of disobedience to 
nature's laws; that by abusing nature and by yielding 
to the carnal mind and the lust of the flesh, that he 
wrecks his nervous system and impairs his brain; de- 
stroys his physical constitution and walks into the wilder- 
ness of spiritual darkness where the light of spiritual truth 
is shut out. 

Moses and the Teachers of Israel taught the physi- 
ological and hygienic truths to the Children of Israel 
that they might have both physical health and spiritual 
life. But modern scholastic theology has substituted for 
the revelation as taught by Moses and the Elders of Israel, 
Materia Medica, and the medical doctor. Scholastic 
theology has eliminated the teachings of Moses and the 
Elders of Israel and kept the people in ignorance as to the 
generative organs — the sex senses — the laws of reproduc- 
tion and their effect upon the physical and spiritual man 
with the result that we have a race of dwarfs, physical 
invalids, mental imbeciles, poisoned and drugged to death 
by Materia Medica, all the result of sin. The elements 
of Materia Medica are composed of the mineral kingdom 
and science has long proven that the animal kingdom 
cannot assimilate the mineral kingdom to any real extent; 
that the animal kingdom can only assimilate the vegetable 
and animal kingdoms in producing physical life. The 
material man is organic physical life and he can only 
assimilate organic physical life in producing and perpet- 
uating this organic physical life. 

He must be fed upon organic matter. His food must 
come from the vegetable and animal kingdoms — the 
organic material kingdoms. He cannot assimilate the 
inorganic — the mineral kingdoms. When he takes this 



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mineral kingdom in the form of Material Medicine into 
his system, it is foreign substance to organic physical 
life and his system will not assimilate it. It is poisonous 
to his constitution and the physical laws of his system have 
to make a special effort to eliminate it from his physical 
body. 

When the chemical elements which compose the 
brain, the spinal cord, the sexual organs and the nervous 
system — and their atomic and chemical friction and ma- 
terial properties — which constitute the carnal mind and 
the carnal man — lose their power to longer perform their 
functions, death takes place. 

When they are in full and complete vigor they are at 
war with the spiritual man and are destructive to his 
spiritual nature and his spiritual life and spiritual vitality. 
To be delivered from this bondage to the material man, 
the carnal law and material creation, and give the spirit- 
ual man absolute freedom and complete restoration to 
spiritual life, is what Paul meant when he said: "All 
creation travaileth and mourneth together and waiteth 
for the day of deliverance." Paul here declared the 
great law of sin of the material universe — that is, all the 
animal and vegetable kingdoms and planetary system are 
controlled by the law of sex, and therefore exist as result 
of sin and in sin and travaileth to be delivered from this 
night of death into the day of spirit and life, where there 
is no sex and no sin. He compares the spiritual man 
striving and waiting to be delivered from bondage to the 
material man, the carnal law and material creation, to the 
woman suffering with pains and agony and waiting to be 
delivered of the child of material birth. 

When this deliverance takes place, when the spiritual 
man and the material man no longer co-ordinate; i. e., 
when the vital currents of the life force of the spiritual 
world and of the Spiritual Universe, which the scholastic 
world calls "God," the Universal Spiritual Intelligence, 
ceases generating life force in the brain and sending the 
life currents collected in the brain over the nerve system 
producing atomic motion and vitality in the material man, 
dissolution takes place and what the Scientific world calls 
"Death" occurs. 

But it is not death, it is the dissolution of the spiritual 
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which God created in His own image lives on, separated 
from the material world, not subject to the material man, 
the carnal law and the material creation. 

There is no death — "0 death, where is thy sting? 
grave, where is thy victory?" 



CHAPTER XII. 
THE SPIRITUAL OR INNATE MIND. 

'Therefore, there is now no condemnation to them 
which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, 
but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ 
Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through 
the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sin- 
ful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh; that the 
righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk 
not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are 
after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they 
that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to 
be carnal minded is death; but to be spiritually minded 
is life and peace/ 7 Romans 8 chapter, 1 to 6 v. 

Moses and the Prophets and the Apostles, in their 
teachings, all recognize the dual nature of man; they 
all recognize the carnal and the spiritual man — that is 
the burden of the story of the Bible from Genesis 
to Revelation. This truth is the key to the Bible and the 
essence of God's revelation to man. The fleshly man is 
born of woman and the spiritual man was made by God in 
His own image. But this dual state only exists as result 
of sin. When sin shall lose its power the material creation 
will cease to be real. 

This fleshly man — this carnal mind — is at enmity 
against God — cannot know and understand spiritual 
things and has no knowledge of the spiritual senses and 
spiritual laws which govern the spiritual man. The 
fleshly man is death. He exists as result of sin and is un- 
real in perfect spiritual purity. 

The spiritual man made in God's image has spiritual 
understanding, is subject to spiritual senses and spiritual 
laws, and can know, realize and feel the ever presence of 
the spiritual Creator. The spiritual man is life. 

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The Apostle Paul here recognizes this revealed 
truth. 

The spiritual mind is the opposite of the natural 
or carnal mind. The carnal mind only exists by the 
absence of spirit in thought. The spiritual mind is Life 
and the carnal mind is Death. The spiritual mind is both 
the spiritual and physical life. The carnal mind is both 
spiritual and physical death. 

As you take into your state of spiritual conscious- 
ness lust, hatred, malice and murder — -the fruits of the 
carnal mind — you are destroying your spiritual life by 
taking into your spiritual consciousness spiritual death; 
and at the same time destroying physical life by sending 
these impulses over the nervous system poisoning and 
burning up the physical man. 

As you shut out the thoughts of the carnal mind 
and take into your state of spiritual consciousness, the 
spiritual mind, you are sending thoughts of happiness, 
joy and peace over the nervous system, producing quiet- 
ness and restfulness in the physical man that nature 
may work in an orderly manner and that assimilation 
and elimination may operate perfectly in the body and 
thus produce spiritual life and physical health. 

'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" has a two- 
fold meaning; it means spiritual life and physical life. 
It involves the law of sex — malice is in the sex — love is in 
the soul — the soul must overcome the sex to love. It 
means to take into life of the soul spiritual consciousness, 
the spiritual mind and spiritual life, and in so doing the 
mental impulses which are sent out by the brain over the 
nervous system of the body are undisturbed by hatred 
and malice, envy and jealousy; and thus causes the organs 
of the body to function regularly, producing physical 
health and strength. The question of the decalogue is a 
sex question, as every question in nature is a sex question, 
and the spiritual life of the soul and eternal life is a sex 
question. The soul must overcome the sex of the mortal 
creation to have eternal life 

The carnal and the spiritual mind are not only ever 
at war with each other as to spiritual life and spiritual 
things, but they are continually at war with each other as 
to physical life and physical health. 

This innate or spiritual mind is the ever flowing 
current from the Spiritual Universe into the material man. 



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This spiritual mind is an ever vital spiritual force imparted 
by the Universal Spiritual Intelligence to the spiritual 
man whom He made in His own image. 

This spiritual mind of vital, life-giving current is 
ever flowing and produces life — spiritual and physical 
— in both the physical and spiritual man. 

This spiritual mind is not dependent upon matter, 
the properties of matter or the friction of matter for 
existence. It is above matter, contrary to matter and 
does not know material laws and is not subject to ma- 
terial laws. 

This innate or spiritual mind is ever living and 
present. The carnal mind ceases to have a state of 
consciousness when the physical man is absolutely asleep. 
The nervous system which connects the co-ordination 
between matter and Spirit is relaxed and while in a state 
of sound sleep the carnal mind loses its control and state 
of consciousness over man. 

But the innate or spiritual mind is ever present — 
performing its life-giving function — and man is ever 
in a state of spiritual consciousness. This innate or 
spiritual mind ' controls the involuntary nervous system 
and organs of the body. When asleep and the carnal 
mind is suspended from action and a state of carnal 
consciousness, the innate mind keeps the involuntary 
nerve system in a state of action; the heart and pulse 
beating, the blood circulating and producing material 
life in the physical man. 

The carnal and physical mind has no part in these 
life currents of the innate or spiritual mind and when 
sound asleep only the innate or spiritual mind is in action, 
And hence, the Bible records that God appeared to man — 
"In dreams." * Abraham, while asleep, said: "Behold 
God is in this place and I knew it not." All through the 
Bible we have God speaking to man while he is asleep. 
When asleep this carnal mind is suspended from action 
and is not in conflict with the spiritual mind and while in 
this state of spiritual consciousness undisturbed by the 
carnal consciousness, God talked with, communed with and 
revealed himself to the Law Givers and the Prophets — 
communed with and revealed himself to the spiritual man 
whom He had created in His own image. 

This spiritual and innate mind sending its life giving 
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and physical life in the physical man is the "All Good" 
of the Universe — "God's Healing Power" of the Early 
Christian church. 

When the physical man does not sleep soundly and 
the carnal mind is intervening in the consciousness of 
the innate or spiritual mind, he may have dreams which 
are produced through the nervous system acting on the 
carnal mind. These dreams come from the carnal mind 
of the material man and the external world. But when 
the physical man is absolutely sound asleep the nervous 
system completely suspended and relaxed and the carnal 
mind is not intervening in the consciousness of the innate 
or spiritual mind, the dreams and consciousness which are 
given forth, come from the spiritual and innate mind — 
the soul — the internal consciousness and spiritual world. 
The state of consciousness and dreams produced while 
man is in this state is the inflowing consciousness from 
the spiritual world producing life in the material man. 
These are the dreams spoken of in the Bible. This was 
the condition — physically, mentally and spiritually — 
that the Law Givers and Prophets were in when God spoke 
to them in dreams and revealed himself unto them when 
they were asleep. 

It was when the carnal mind and the physical man 
were not interfering with the spiritual mind and the spir- 
itual man in consciousness, that God spoke and com- 
muned with the spiritual Sages of Old. "The prophet that 
hath a dream let him tell a dream and he that hath my 
word let him speak my word faithfully" (Jeremiah 23: 28). 
"In a dream — in a vision of the night when deep sleep 
falleth on men in the slumberings of the bed then He 
openeth the ears of men and sealeth their instructions that 
He may withdraw man from his purpose and hide pride 
from man" (Job 33: 15-16). 

It is this spiritual and innate mind which gives 
spiritual consciousness to the spiritual man and com- 
munes with God when the carnal mind and the fleshly 
man are suspended and closed out of the consciousness 
of the spiritual man. There is spiritual virtue in dreams 
and spiritual truths revealed in spiritual dreams to the 
innate mind and spiritual man. 

There are likewise fleshly dreams when the carnal 
mind through sensuality and lust shuts out the light of 



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spiritual consciousness and the physical man and the carnal 
mind dominates. "Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and 
the cities about them in like manner giving themselves 
over to fornication and going after strange flesh are set 
forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal 
fire. Likewise, also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, 
despise dominion and speak of dignitaries" (Jude 7-8 
verses). 

These fleshly dreams are from the carnal mind 
and the flesh and shut out the light of spiritual con- 
sciousness and are death both to the physical and spir- 
itual man. They originate in the sex and lust senses of 
the mortal mind. 

The spiritual dreams are from the innate and spirit- 
ual mind and come into the state of consciousness when 
the carnal mind with its fleshly and lustful desires is 
shut out from the state of spiritual consciousness. They 
come into the state of consciousness when the innate and 
spiritual mind is in full play and has complete control 
over man and are lif egiving both spiritually and physically. 

The innate or spiritual mind is healthy and life-giving 
both to the physical and the spiritual man. This innate 
mind is a part of the Spiritual Universe — and Spirit is 
life. When the spiritual and innate mind is held in a state 
of consciousness and the carnal mind excluded from the 
state of consciousness, the innate mind which is Spirit 
flows with its life-giving forces, through the generative 
power of the brain, over the nervous system of man 
causing the laws of assimilation and elimination to work 
harmoniously in the body. If the nerve system is sound 
and the organs of the body are left intact and not diseased, 
this mental state of spiritual consciousness will not only 
restore, but preserve, physical health. It will cause the 
food taken into the stomach to be digested and assimilated 
and the physical body to be reconstructed and rebuilt. 
This is normal healing by the power of the Spirit and 
spiritual consciousness. 

If the nervous system is destroyed and too weak 
for the vital forces of the innate and spiritual conscious- 
ness to produce the proper amount of nerve energy and 
normal assimilation and elimination, then special inter- 
vening power of Spiritual Intelligence is required to pro- 
duce health. Or, if the organs of the body are diesased 



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and destroyed so that they will not functionate, Special 
intervention of the Spiritual Intelligence is necessary to 
reproduce health. This is what the orthodox world call 
a ' 'miracle' ' or "the supernatural." But, in fact, it is 
a deeper spiritual life and a better spiritual understanding 
and the overcoming of matter by the Spirit and the physi- 
cal laws by the spiritual laws. Few reach this state of 
spiritual understanding and spiritual consciousness so as 
to be able to avail themselves of the supernatural. There 
is no miracle in the absolute spiritual life, for in that life 
all is real, and the material does not exist. 

Many spiritually minded reach that state of spiritual 
consciousness so as to avail themselves of the normal spir- 
itual healing and spiritual life, but few reach that state 
of spiritual consciousness so as to be able to invoke the 
supernatural, for the unreal of the material senses to 
absolutely disappear from the consciousness of the soul. 

This law of spiritual healing and spiritual life is 
demonstrated by the law of dreams. He who thinks of 
carnal things and permits his lustful nature to absorb 
his thoughts during the day will have his consciousness 
invaded at night while asleep and have carnal dreams. 
The thoughts of the carnal man are entering into his con- 
sciousness while asleep. The carnal mind will enter his 
state of consciousness when the Spiritual mind should be 
in absolute control. He who thinks of spiritual things 
and excludes the carnal mind from his consciousness dur- 
ing the day, will dream of spiritual things when asleep. 
The spiritual mind when in this state excludes from its 
consciousness the carnal mind and the spiritual mind is 
in absolute control of the state of consciousness. 

This was the state of consciousness that the Sages 
of Israel were in when God spoke to them in dreams. 
The scholastic world calls it "sub-consciousness" — or, 
"that which we know while asleep." But it is more than 
subconsciousness, it is real consciousness — it is the con- 
sciousness of the spiritual man or the innate mind when 
the carnal mind and the state of consciousness of the physi- 
cal man are excluded. It is the state of consciousness which 
gives light — spiritual light— to the spiritual man and 
physical life to the physical man. That is what the 
Psalmist means when he says: "Who forgiveth all thine 
iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases." It is this 



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spiritual state of consciousness which conforms to natural 
laws and spiritual laws and gives spiritual and physical 
life. We do not deny natural law and matter, but claim 
that this state of spiritual consciousness controls and regu- 
lates them as well as controls and regulates spiritual law 
and life. Matter only exists to the physical senses. 

It is necessary for the physical man to eat the proper 
kind of food — but it is also necessary for him to digest 
and assimilate this food to have health. The laws of 
assimilation and elimination go on continually in his body 
to preserve physical health. The organs of his body must 
perform their proper functions to preserve physical life. 
Disarrange these laws and prevent their natural operation 
and you have physical disease and physical death. Matter 
of itself has no life and no intelligence. The intelligence 
and the force which operates these physical laws and 
organs and preserves physical life in the physical man is 
spiritual. It is the power of the Universal Spiritual 
Intelligence generating nerve force in the brain and send- 
ing this nerve force or vital current out over the nervous 
system, that causes the organs of the body of the physical 
man to operate and produce digestion, assimilation and 
elimination and preserve physical life and health. 

If you obstruct these physical laws by worry, hatred 
malice and jealousy and take these conditions into your 
state of consciousness, thereby shutting off the current of 
vital force, you will produce sickness and disease in the 
physical man. But if you exclude from your state of 
consciousness these fruits of the cranal mind and let the 
vital current of life and Spirit flow into the physical man 
over the nervous system, you produce physical health and 
life. This is the healing power of the state of spiritual 
consciousness. The Elders of Israel understand this 
spiritual law; the Disciples of the Early Church realized 
and understood it. It is not the supernatural, but the 
natural life-giving power of the Spirit. It is the life- 
giving force of Spirit over matter. 

The Author for many years could not understand 
or realize anything but matter and material laws. He 
inherited a weak and frail nervous system and a weak and 
delicate stomach. He was left an orphan in the 
world at nine years of age and had no one to care for 
his physical condition; he lived where he could and 



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ate as he could, all kinds of food, at restaurants, 
boarding houses and hotels, that his delicate stomach 
would not digest and his weak nervous system would not 
assimilate. As he grew up into manhood, he was of a 
studious nature and read and studied much, thereby over- 
taxing his frail constitution. He had great ambition, all 
from sex — sin. At twenty-one his normal weight was 
one hundred and forty pounds; but not understanding 
these spiritual laws and being unable to digest and assimi- 
late his food according to physical laws, that which 
he put into his stomach would ferment and decay and he 
soon developed stomach, bowel and liver trouble which 
the doctors mis-diagnosed and began to operate on him 
for effects instead of removing the cause. Instead of 
assimilating his food he absorbed it into his system as so 
much posion until he weighed nearly two hundred pounds 
and his nervous system and constitution was so dis- 
arranged and poisoned that he could not sleep — all the 
result of sin of the author and his ancestors. In the mean- 
time the doctors operated on him five times — almost 
completely destroying his delicate stomach and weak 
nervous system. After these operations were over, by 
means of stimulating the liver temporarily by drugs made 
from herbs, forty pounds of this poisonous substance was 
taken from his system within twenty days, leaving him a 
shadow and a complete nervous wreck. He did not have 
vitality enough to cause capillary circulation. He had 
not had a good night's sleep in five years. His stomach 
and nervous system were so weak that when he would go 
to walk the glare of the light would affect his stomach 
and nervous system so that he would fall over face fore- 
most. He could not digest and assimilate the most deli- 
cate food. His stomach and body had been poisoned by 
taking all kinds of medicine for years, and his weak 
nervous system was destroyed. 

In this state he began to think spiritual thoughts in- 
stead of material thoughts. He began to take into his 
state of consciousness the state of spiritual truth and ex- 
clude the material and carnal. His nervous system was 
so weak that according to natural law it could not relax 
so as he could get natural sleep. His spine had been 
affected from the operations so that medical science said 
he could not possibly live. Instead of natural sleep he 



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would exclude from his mind all material thoughts and 
images and make his mind a perfect blank — thereby let- 
ting the life current of spiritual force generate nerve 
energy in the brain and send it out over his weak nerve 
system, producing as much power of assimilation and 
elimination as possible. By availing himself of the state 
of spiritual consciousness and thinking spiritual thoughts 
and excluding the carnal and material from his state of 
consciousness, and not indulging the desires of lust, he 
gradually rebuilt by degrees until he reached that state 
where his nervous system would relax slightly for a few 
minutes at a time — so he could get a few minutes of half 
sleep and half unconsciousness. By continuing in this 
state of blank mental attitude and resting and taking 
into his state of consciousness only spiritual thoughts and 
permitting the spiritual forces and vital current to be 
generated freely in the brain and to be sent out freely over 
his weak nerve system — he gradually rebuilt until he 
could digest some food and the laws of assimilation and 
elimination would operate to some extent until he be- 
gan to take on vitality and to rebuild physically. And 
by living free of the sensual acts, rebuilt and wrote 
his works on the Bible. 

The Author never drank any whiskey or alcoholic 
stimulants except in case of sickness. He never took any 
drugs in the way of opiates in his life. But from lack of 
assimilation of his food his nervous system atrophied 
and starved while in this impoverished state of health 
until the demand of his nerves for nutriment for the 
nerve cells caused an excruciating agony, as though ten 
billion pins were being stuck into him at one time. All 
this he overcome to the extent that he has lived for years 
and done great mental work. But he has lived the life 
of purity in act and thought so far as the human could 
during these years. 

The doctors gave him up to die and no one thought 
he could live. But by applying the law of Spirit to the 
law of matter and living in a state of spiritual consciousness 
and giving the vital forces of spiritual laws free and com- 
plete play to generate nerve force in the brain and to send 
the vital currents out over his weak and impoverished 
nervous system, he controlled the natural laws by the 
spiritual laws so as to gain physical strength, to still live 
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The doctors tell us that worry causes indigestion, 
poor health and will kill the physical man, but they do 
not tell us why. Like all other contentions of Materia 
Medica, they give us the effects without giving the cause. 
Medical science, if it can be called a science, describes dis- 
ease and its effect, but concludes with cause " Unknown." 

Those who understand the spiritual laws as well 
as the natural laws know that all disease is due primarily 
to a weak nerve system and want of nerve force— and that 
this is due to sin. By "nerve force" we mean the vital 
current, of the Spiritual Universe energizing the physical 
man and sending life currents over the nerve system; 
the brain — into which the nerve system centers by way of. 
the spinal cord — relax — the carnal mind is unconscious; 
but the spiritual or sub-conscious mind is active and at 
work, and thus life is generated in the brain and sent out 
over the nerve system and the physical man is rebuilt. 
Without sleep so that his state of relaxation could take 
place, the nerve system would soon contract instead of 
relaxing, and the physical man would begin to break down 
instead of rebuilding. The Author was so sick for years 
and his nerve system was so weak that he could not relax 
to get natural sleep and lived by closing his mind to the 
external world and making his mind a perfect blank so 
that the nerve current could pass into his body and main- 
tain physical life. He lived by this method of controlling 
matter with mind, until he regained sufficiently to enter 
a natural state of relaxation and get some natural sleep 
and let the nerve current pass in the natural way from the 
brain over the nervous system. 

All life is free from the material force. The Fathers 
of the "Early Church" understood this truth and healed 
the sick. Without sin there is no disease and death — 
Jesus overcame sin and therefore overcame death — had 
he been the father of children he would never have come 
out of the grave. The spiritual and life-giving force 
controls natural laws and matter. There is not anything 
supernatural about it — life — the natural state of Spirit 
and matter is for Spirit to control matter. 

The strong physical man by indulging in lust, drunk- 
enness, hatred and malice and shutting out from his 
consciousness the power of the Spirit and yielding to the 
carnal mind, may soon become a physical wreck. He 



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sends forces over his nervous system which are poisonous 
and destructive to the physical man. But the same man 
with a strong physical constitution by shutting out the 
carnal mind from his state of consciousness, denying the 
law of lust, hatred and malice and taking into his state of 
consciousness the power of love over his strong ner- 
vous system, will preserve his health and live to be 
a strong, healthy old man. 

This is the normal health-preserving and life-giving 
force of Spirit over matter and it is available to every 
individual of strong spiritual power and of a deep state 
of spiritual consciousness. 

But there is a supernatural healing power of the 
Spirit. Christ taught this supernatural, spiritual power 
and so did the Apostles and many of the Early Church 
Fathers. "And it came to pass on a certain day as He 
was teaching, that there were Pharisees and Doctors of 
the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of 
Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem and the power of the 
Lord was present to heal them/' Luke 5: 17. "And when 
He had called unto Him His Twelve Disciples, he gave 
them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, 
and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of dis- 
eases/' Matt. 10: 1. "There came also a multitude out 
of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick 
folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits; 
and they were healed every one," Acts 5: 16. 

The unclean spirits and evil spirits here mentioned, 
of course, were the powers of the flesh. The flesh is unclean, 
anti-spiritual, and is sickness and death. The power 
manifested here to heal, of course, was supernatural. 
Christ and the Apostles who did the healing were in a state 
of spiritual consciousness which had absolute control over 
the carnal mind and physical man and thereby possessed 
the power to make the carnal mind yield to the spiritual 
mind. They were in a state of consciousness whereby 
the spiritual had absolute power over the natural and ma- 
terial, and their healing power was therefore supernatural. 
Matter and the carnal mind did not enter their state of 
consciousness, only Spirit and spiritual laws entered their 
state of consciousness and they could therefore subject 
matter and the carnal mind to the Spirit and the spiritual 
laws. They were living above the sex senses of the mortal 



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creation, and therefore could heal the sick. If we live 
the same life as Jesus and the Apostles lived — above the 
sex — in thought and act, we can heal the sick too. 

Moses, the Elders and the Prophets of Israel, the 
Disciples and Apostels and the Fathers of the ' 'Early 
Church" understood this spiritual truth and practiced 
it. But when the church became more materialistic and 
men began to worship God with the senses of the physical 
man they began to lose their power to heal the sick, and 
when the material forces got control of the church and it 
became a meterialistic institution, run and controlled by 
the material man, who worshipped a materialistic god 
with the material senses of the physical man, men lost 
their healing power and the power of the spiritual over the 
material — and the spiritual man over the material man. 
When the church made Baal its god it lost its power. 

The spiritual mind is of God — it is a part of the 
Universal Spiritual Intelligence. It knows no. death. 
When it excludes from its state of consciousness the carnal 
mind and the power of the flesh, it has absolute control 
over matter and natural laws. The spiritual man is then 
in the absolute image of his Maker; he is in absolute har- 
mony with God and God's spiritual universe, and reflects 
God, and knows no disease and death. 

"There is therefore now no condemnation to them 
which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, 
but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of Life in 
Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and 
death/' Romans 8: 1-2. Paul here places sin — sex — and 
death side by side. 

The power of Spirit over matter and the spiritual mind 
over the carnal mind is not so much a question of faith 
as it is spiritual understanding —the realization of God 
as the only life. 

The spiritual mind understandeth spiritual things 
and spiritual laws — and when this spiritual mind and 
spiritual man are placed in a state of spiritual consciousness 
absolutely in harmony with God and God's law and 
spiritual universe, the spiritual man hath absolute power 
over the carnal mind and natural law and the physical 
man — he hath spiritual life which driveth out sin, sickness 
and death — both spiritually and physically. 

The carnal and fleshly mind hates the innate and 
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112 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

The spiritual man spoke through the Prophets and the 
Elders of Israel and the Disciples and Fathers of the 
Early Church and the fleshly man stoned them and 
killed them. The spiritual power flowed into the mind of 
these spiritual Sages like a mighty current flooding the 
world with spiritual power and light, but the fleshly man 
dammed up the mighty current with fleshly power and 
carnal obstructions. The Spirit gave .light and life 
through the Prophets and the Teachers of Israel to the 
world, but the carnal man denied the light and preferred 
darkness to light and night to day. The spiritual man 
loved the light of the Spirit and the carnal man loved the 
darkness of the flesh. The spiritual mind gives the 
spiritual light of day to the spiritual man and the carnal 
mind gives the darkness of night to the fleshly man. 
Jesus' teachings were for the soul, and condemned the life 
of his carnal age, and the serpent in men nailed Him to 
the Cross. 

Every philosopher, every prophet and every teacher 
who has had 'the light of the Spirit and taught it to the 
world has been hated and despised by the carnal mind and 
the fleshly man. The fleshly man through his carnal mind 
has stoned and killed the teachers of spiritual truth in 
every age of the world. The flesh will not accept the 
Spirit. The carnal mind will not be taught by the spir- 
itual mind. The fleshly man will not receive the doctrines 
of the spiritual man. 

"And this is the condemnation, that light is come 
into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light 
because their deeds were evil," John 3: 19. 

The spiritual mind giveth light! light! light! unto 
the world in the midst of the darkness of the night of 
the carnal mind and the fleshly man. Soul purity is life. 
The night of the serpent's mind — the lust of the flesh — is 
death. If the soul would live and have fellowship with 
God it must overcome the lust of the flesh in thought and 
act. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

THE CREATION— SPIRIT AND MATTER— OR 
SPIRIT AND FLESH. 

''In the beginning, God created the heavens and the 
earth, and the earth was without form and void and dark- 
ness was upon the face of the deep." "And the Spirit 
of God moved upon the face of the waters." "And God 
said: Let there be light and there was light." Genesis, 
1 : 13. "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was 
with God and the Word was God. The same was in the 
beginning with God. All things were made by Him 
and without Him was not anything made that was made. 
In Him was Light and the Light was the life of men. 
And the Light shineth in darkness and the darkness 
comprehended it not." John, 1: 1-5. 

There was a time when matter did not exist — when 
the material creation was a nonentity. A time existed 
when the material universe did not exist. God who is 
Spirit and Universal Spiritual Intelligence created matter 
and the material universe — By withdrawing Himself 
as the only and real life from consciousness as result of sin. 

Spirit cannot be materialized — neither can matter be 
spiritualized. Spirit and matter cannot be harmonized. 
They are foreign to each other and are governed by dif- 
ferent laws. Matter has no intelligence and life of 
itself. Matter has material properties, but no innate 
life and innate intelligence, and only exists in conscious- 
ness when man as spirit fails to realize God as the only 
real life. 

The universe exists. There must be a Spiritual 
Intelligence — and that Universal Spiritual Intelligence 
must be eternal; and must have created matter, or else 
matter is eternal. Either matter or Spirit is eternal — 
that is, existed without a beginning. The materialist 
must admit this proposition. All men must admit it 

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regardless of revelation. That either Spirit or matter 
existed without a beginning is self evident, that either 
spirit or matter was all in the infinite and in the begin- 
ning. 

That this universe is governed by law all must admit. 
That the material universe is governed by law and intelli- 
gence none can deny. That material creation is a cosmos, 
not chaos — is law and order, and not disorder and an- 
archy — no one can deny. 

That matter has no innate intelligence must be ad- 
mitted. The rock, the stone — cannot think and cannot 
know the laws of the material universe. Therefore, there 
must be an Intelligent Force which governs the created 
universe. There must be an Intelligence which regulates 
and governs the material universe. If this Intelligence 
was all in the beginning, it is all now, and matter is the 
unreal and does exist in the complete realization of spirit. 

This Intelligent Force which created matter is 
Spirit and is a Universal Personal Spiritual Intelligence. 
He created matter and the material creation according 
to His spiritual intelligence and fixed laws to govern the 
material universe. The mineral kingdom of this material 
creation has no organic life. Out of the mineral kingdom 
is developed the vegetable kingdom which is organic life. 
The trees and the flowers are of a higher state of material 
creation than the rocks and the stones. The animal 
kingdom is still a higher creation of material organic life. 
The birds that fly in the air and sing in the trees, the fish 
as they swim in the ocean, and the herds of cattle as they 
low upon the hill tops are a higher state of organic material 
life than the lilies of the valley and the flowers of the gar- 
den and the trees of the forest. Material man is the 
highest type of this organic material life and is given 
dominion over all other creation of the animal kingdom. 
The creation which is unreal in spirit — life — is governed 
by sex — and is the result of sin. 

According to natural law, the vegetable kingdom can 
assimilate from the mineral kingdom to produce organic 
life in the vegetable kingdom. And the animal kingdom 
can assimilate from the vegetable kingdom and produce 
life in the animal kingdom. But the animal kingdom can- 
not assimilate the mineral kingdom and convert the 
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Man cannot assimilate the mineral kingdom as food and 
produce material life from the mineral kingdom. He 
is dependent for food out of which to sustain the material 
life upon the vegetable and animal kingdoms. When he 
takes the mineral kingdom into his body, it is a foreign 
substance and nature must eliminate it as a poison — 
he cannot assimilate it into organic material life to any 
extent. As you progress from the mineral kingdom to 
the animal kingdom of material creation, you reach a 
higher state of organic material life. But, as this state 
of organic material life progresses, it reaches by progress 
the consciousness of the Spiritual Intelligence which 
created material life. And man, the highest type of the 
material creation, is conscious of the Spiritual Universe 
and his own spiritual nature. 

It is immaterial whether God was billions of years in 
creating the material universe or created it instantan- 
eously. Material man — the highest type of material 
creation, has an innate consciousness of a Spiritual 
Personality and a Spiritual Intelligence. 

And man is conscious that he is made in the Image 
of God — the word, the only reality — life — the Christ 
was with God — life — and was God — life — in the beginning; 
and without this life spirit there was not anything made 
that was made. The Creator being Spirit — all that was 
really made was spiritual — matter is the unreal. 

As this law of material progress of organic life de- 
velops by progression from the mineral kingdom, the 
vegetable kingdom and the animal kingdom into the 
physical man, the highest type of the animal kingdom, 
so likewise does the spiritual creation develop by the 
law of progression from the lowest type ipf the 
animal kingdom to the spiritual man — the highest type of 
the manifestations of the Spirit in the spiritual creation — 
this highest type of the spiritual manifestation being the 
spiritual man who was created in God's image. 

The vegetable kingdom assimilates the mineral king- 
dom into organic material life and according to this law, 
from the mineral kingdom grows the flowers, roses, the 
lillies, and all of the vegetable kingdom. The animal 
kingdom assimilates the vegetable and animal kingdom 
and from the vegetable and animal kingdom man and the 
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116 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

the animal kingdom. This is the law of progress from 
the lower to the higher state of material life. Moses 
taught this law as revealed to him. Likewise, there is 
a law of progression from the lower to the higher spiritual 
existence. The scriptures teach this truth. All animal 
life possess some part of the spiritual universe. There is 
no life except Spirit. What we term material life is 
simply the energizing power of Spirit in matter — and what 
we call physical material life is simply the manifestation 
of spiritual life over the nervous system producing physi- 
cal life. But primarily, all life is spiritual. The spiritual 
creation is governed by the law of progression, and so is 
the material creation. 

The Scriptures teach this as a revealed truth — 
Numbers 16: 22 verse. God is referred to as "the God of 
the spirits of all flesh." Ecclesiastes, 9: 21: "Who know- 
eth the spirit of man that goeth upward and the spirit 
of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?" James, 
26: "For as the body without the Spirit is dead, so faith 
without works is dead also." 

Here we are taught by revelation that all life is 
from Spirit, and from the lowest to the highest creation 
possesses this life in some degree — the higher the state 
of physical life the higher the state of spiritual life. This 
law of progression prevails in creation until it reaches 
man — the highest type of physical creation and the high- 
est conception of spiritual creation — and the spiritual 
man who was made in God's image has a spiritual con- 
sciousness of a spiritual individuality. God in the be- 
ginning created the heaven— Spirit — and the earth — 
the flesh — and it is a long way from the spiritual to ma- 
terial creation. 

The material creation is anti-spiritual and this 
law runs from the lowest to the highest state of ma- 
terial creation. In the animal kingdom, this law of 
anti-spiritual nature prevails in the lower animal king- 
dom as well as in the higher; that is, the material lower 
animal kingdom is anti-spiritual as well as the material 
man, the highest type of the animal kingdom. This 
anti-spiritual nature of the animal kingdom is repre- 
sented in the generative organs — sex senses — and the 
sexual laws by which the animal kingdom is propagated. 
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anti-spiritual nature in their generative organs and 
possesses the lustful nature as well as man, the highest 
type of the animal kingdom. Who has not observed the 
viciousnegs of the male of the members of the lower 
animal kingdom, and who has not observed the law of 
lust controlling the opposite sexes of the lower animal 
kingdom? Who, as a student of nature, has not observed 
the law of jealoysy and hatred among the members of the 
lower animal kingdom from the lowest to the highest, 
which is anti-spiritual in its nature; the members of the 
lower animal kingdom are not conscious of its conflict 
with the spiritual nature because they have not that high 
degree of spiritual life which gives them a spiritual con- 
sciousness of a spiritual personality. But man, the com- 
pletion and the highest type of creation in his physical 
nature who was given dominion over the lower animal 
kingdom physically, and who in his spiritual nature was 
made in God's image, has his state of spiritual conscious- 
ness, that he is an individual spiritual being made in the 
Image of God — and in him the conflict between the flesh 
and the spirit — the spiritual and the material creation — 
reaches its high state of strife and war. The material 
creation is unreal, except to physical senses. 

The Scriptures teach this spiritual and material 
law. Moses and the Prophets understood it — so did 
the Disciples and the Fathers of the Early Church. 

The entire animal kingdom is at enmity with the 
spiritual kingdom. The law of lust of the animal king- 
dom of the material creation hates the Spirit, and the law 
of Spirit. The lust of the flesh of the animal kingdom 
of the material creation hateth the Spirit and spiritual 
things and is at war with the spiritual universe, and hence 
the material creation must perish and pass away and the 
physical creation of the animal kingdom, which is the 
product of the law of lust, must die because it is anti- 
spiritual and unreal. The lowest members of the animal 
kingdom must die because they are produced as a result 
of the law of lust just as the physical man must return 
to dust because he is a product of the law of lust. If 
the material creation was real it would never pass away, 
and if the physical man were real he would never die. But 
God is the only reality and the Ego which was made in 
his Image is all that there is real about man — and this 
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118 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

God is Spirit and God is Life. The animal kingdom 
is the product of the law of lust of the flesh and the flesh 
is death, because it is unreal. And this law runs through 
all of the animal kingdom of material creation and of God's 
spiritual universe. 

Romans, 7: 5: 'Tor when we were in the flesh, the 
motions of sins, (the word motions here in the original 
means passions — which, of course, means the passions of 
the flesh), which were by the law, did work in our members 
to bring forth fruit unto death." To give this passage 
its full meaning the Apostle intended to convey in the 
original Greek it would have to read; 'Tor when we 
were in the flesh the sexual passions of sin which were by 
the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit 
unto death." Sixth chapter, 12th verse of Genesis: 
"And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was cor- 
rupt; for all flesh corrupted his way upon the earth." 
Fifth chapter Galations, seventeenth verse: 'Tor the 
flesh lusted against the Spirit and the Spirit against 
the flesh." Sixth chapter of Galations, eighth verse: 
'Tor he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap 
corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of 
the Spirit reap life everlasting." 

The Word which was with God in the beginning and 
which was God — which John -refers to in the opening of 
his Gospel and which was the creative power, and which 
spoke the materia] universe into existence, was Spirit. 
The material creation is anti-spiritual and the animal 
kingdom of this creation is produced and propagated by 
the law of lust — the essence of that which is anti-spiritual. 
All physical creation is produced and propagated by the 
law of lust and is anti-spiritual and must die. This law 
governs from the lowest to the highest, the members of 
the animal kingdom of the meterial creation. 

That is what the Scripture means when it says: 
"All creation travaileth and mourneth together and 
waiteth for the day of deliverance." That is, the physi- 
cal creation which is produced and propagated by the 
law of sex and of the flesh and the law of lust is at enmity 
with the spiritual universe and the spirits which are 
manifested in physical life travaileth and waiteth for the 
day of deliverance from sin and sex of the flesh and the 
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The Word means reality and the word was God, the 
only reality — the only life — the Christ— Spirit, in the 
beginning, and by spirit all things that were created 
were made and all that was made was spiritual, and that 
which was not made is unreal in spirit life, and seems to 
exist to the senses as result of sin. 



CHAPTER XIV. 
MARRIAGE AND THE NATURAL BIRTH. 

Scholastic and man-made theology has declared 
marriage and the natural birth to be holy, and spiritual. 
Scholastic theology has declared marriage to be a spirit- 
ual institution, and has made it one of the sacraments of 
the church and the natural conception and the natural 
birth it has declared to be spiritual and holy. This is 
error, and not the truth. Man-made theology has thus 
declared the physical and material relations of the sexes 
to be holy and spiritual. And upon this rock every ship 
of scholastic theology through the ages has been wrecked 
and sunk in the bottomless pit of the ocean of error. 
Scholastic and man-made theology, in contending that 
marriage is holy and the natural birth is spiritual, has 
contended for too much. It has confounded the moral 
of the mortal creation with the spiritual. If marriage be 
holy and the natural birth spiritual, then the physical 
man would be spiritual and in harmony with his Maker 
and would need no redemption or salvation. The makers 
of scholastic theology, in contending that marriage is 
holy and the natural birth spiritual, have argued their 
theology out of court and have given the world of in- 
fidelity a judgment by confession. For the infidel 
replies: "If marriage be holy and the natural concep- 
tion and the natural birth be spiritual, why does man need 
redemption or salvation?" And if the contention of the 
theological world be true, the infidels' and agnostics' 
and materialists' reply is unanswerable. 

But marriage is not holy and the natural birth is 
not spiritual and upon the truth of this statement de- 
pens the Immaculate and Supernatural Conception of 
Jesus Christ. 

But the theological world quotes— does not the 
Bible say: "And the Lord God said: It is not good 

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that man should be alone and I will make him a help- 
meet for him." Genesis, 2: 18. "And Adam said: 
This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh — she 
shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. 
Therefore, shall a man leave his father and his mother 
and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one 
flesh." Genesis, 2: 23. "And God blessed them and 
God said unto them be fruitful and multiply and replenish 
the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish 
of the sea and over every living thing that liveth upon the 
earth." Genesis, 1: 28. 

Scholastic and man-made theology has construed 
these passages of Scripture through the ages as authority 
for the contention that marriage is holy and the natural 
birth spiritual; and have relied upon these passages of 
Scripture as authority for making marriage a Sacrament 
of the church. They have been used as authority to 
gratify the lust of the flesh; and the physical man has 
used them as a subterfuge and misconstrued them for the 
purpose of justifying his lust, as divine and spiritual. 

We observe here that the Scripture quotations which 
scholastic theology relies upon as authority for its con- 
tention that marriage is holy and the natural birth spirit- 
ual, refer to the physical man and not to the spiritual man. 
The Lord God in the Garden was the mortal mind speak- 
ing to the soul and it was Adam — the man of the flesh — 
who said: "This is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh." 

Before God "blessed them" he created the spirit- 
ual man; and He said: "Be fruitful, multiply and 
subdue the earth — the flesh — this was God — the Divine 
mind speaking to the soul — the man made in His Image — 
and not the Lord God, mortal mind of the flesh, in the 
Garden. There were two minds in the Garden, and the 
Divine Mind — God — told man that he was made in His 
Image and to overcome sin that then existed. "But of the 
tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat 
of it for the day that thou eateth thereof thou shalt 
surely die." In other words, before the physical woman 
was created the man was put on notice that the moment 
he yielded to sexual lust he should die — physical man 
should return to dust. And the Scripture tells us that 
God knew that he would fall before he created him. 
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122 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

that the spiritual man would thereby take into his con- 
sciousness the state of the carnal mind. 

"So God created man in His own image, in the 
image of God created He him; male and female created 
he them." Genesis, 1: 27. We observe here that it was 
the spiritual man who was created in God's image, and 
not the physical and fleshly man. And God blessed them 
and said unto them: "Be fruitful and multiply and 
replenish the earth and subdue it; and have dominion 
over the fish of the sea and over the fowls of the air and 
over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.' ' 

We note here that it was the spiritual man whom 
God blessed, and it was this man whom He told to mul- 
tiply and to replenish the earth and to whom he gave 
dominion over all other creation. The spiritual man was 
made in God's image and the physical man was made the 
highest type of animal creation and given dominion over 
the rest of the animal kingdom. Spirit is Life and when 
manifested in the material creation is individualized 
into a Personal Spiritual Being. The spiritual man whom 
God created in His own image was part of Universal 
Spiritual Life before he was manifested in matter and when 
this Universal Spiritual Life was manifested in the physi- 
cal man the spiritual man was individualized into an 
individual spirit — "Multiplying" referred to here by the 
Scriptures quoted is a spiritual increase. The Scriptures 
tell us, however, that the spiritual man by taking into 
his spiritual consciousness the carnal mind and sexual 
lust in multiplying the physical man and in individual- 
izing the spiritual man into a spiritual individuality from 
Universal Spiritual Life, fell; that is, the spiritual man 
who is governed by spiritual laws, took into his state of 
consciousness the law of the carnal mind, the nature of 
lust and the material man; and was thus placed out of 
harmony with the laws of the spiritual universe and 
Universal Spiritual Life — out of harmony with God's 
laws and God's universe. Sin existed when God created 
man, and He told man made in His Image to be fruitful 
spiritually, and to subdue the earth — the flesh — sin — and 
if he touched sin— the flesh — he should die. 

There is a dual man — the spiritual and the material. 
It was the spiritual man that God made in His own image, 
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Creation the physical man by reproduction was used as a 
means of individualizing the spiritual man into a spiritual 
personality from Universal Spiritual Life. But there is 
no harmony between the spiritual man and the material 
man. This spiritual man is a part of the Universal Spir- 
itual Life — and Spirit is eternal. "The Spirit of God hath 
made me and the breath of the Almighty hath given me 
life." 33d Job, 4th verse. "God that made the world 
and all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of Heaven 
and Earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 
neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though He 
needed anything, seeing He giveth to all life, and 
breath, and all things." Acts 17: 24-25. 

"There is a natural body and there is a spiritual 
body." Corinthians, 15: 44. We observe in these quota- 
tions that the Life and the Man referred to is the spiritual 
life and the spiritual man and that God giveth this Life 
and created this Man. He is not the material man which 
was born of woman. This material man born of woman, 
would not have been here had man subdued the earth — 
the flesh — as he was commanded to do — as the second 
Adam — the Christ did. 

"For He knoweth our frame He remembereth that we 
are dust." 103d Psalm, 14th verse. "But, now, 
Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay and thou art 
our potter; and we are all the work of thy hands." 
64th Isaiah, 8th verse. In these quotations the Scripture 
is referring to the physical man whom God said shall 
return to dust. 

The spiritual man is eternal; he is evolved from the 
Universal Spiritual Life into a spiritual individuality 
and that is what the Scriptures mean when they say: 
"God made man in His own image." The physical man 
is of material creation and matter shall cease to exist. 

The scholastic theologians have relied for ages on 
that passage of Scripture, "Multiply and replenish the 
earth," as authority for indulging the physical man's 
lust. They have made marriage a spiritual institution 
and the physical birth as holy by virtue of their creeds 
and preached to the human family the licentious doctrines; 
if they would only marry — if the sexes would only mate 
by the authority of the church they were at liberty to 
indulge their sexual lust at will and by so doing they would 



124 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

be serving their God. This lustful doctrine and licentious 
teaching had its origin in the lustful nature of the physical 
man and the theologians in forming creeds for the physical 
man to worship God through his physical senses and 
his carnal mind naturally made the law of lust, marriage, 
and physical birth holy and spiritual. The Pagan re- 
ligions had the same idea, for the priesthood of the Pagan 
religions formed creeds for the people to know God through 
the physical senses and to worship through the carnal 
mind, for by so doing their creeds appealed to the physical 
man and gratified his nature and lust. It was sex worship. 
The priesthood and scholastic theology of the Christian 
religion as the centuries rolled by gradually drifted away 
from the teachings of Moses and the Prophets, Christ, 
the Apostles and the Fathers of the "Early Church" who 
proclaimed a spiritual God to the spiritual man, and 
adopted the Pagan idea of proclaiming a physical god 
to the physical senses of man; thereby appealing to the 
lust and the carnal mind of the physical man and holding 
him within the grasp of their creeds. They gave him 
Paganism — sex worship — for Christianity — soul purity. 

This was the origin of the conception that marriage 
and the physical birth is holy — to sustain their creed which 
appealed to the lust and the carnal mind of the physical 
man they misconstrued, misinterpreted. 24th verse of 
2d Genesis; "Therefore, shall a man leave his father and 
his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall 
be one flesh." 2d verse Genesis, "It is not good that 
man shall be alone, I will make a helpmeet for him." 
Matthew 19th, 6th verse, "Wherefore, they are no more 
twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined 
together let not man put asunder." Priest-craft and 
scholastic theology following out the idea of Paganism, 
the religions of spiritualizing the physical man and knowing 
God and worshipping God through the physical senses 
and the carnal mind, have attempted to spiritualize these 
passages of Scripture and to spiritualize the physical man 
and to make marriage and natural birth spiritual and 
holy. 

Instead of the passages of Scripture which they relied 
on as authority for declaring marriage and the natural 
birth holy and spiritual, by correct interpretation, these 
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to be the truth and pronounce marriage and the physical 
birth anti-spiritual and unholy — of the flesh. God joined 
the male and female of the mortal creation, together as 
one flesh on account of sin, and they propagate through 
sin, and for the soul to return to the Image of God, the 
Garden of Eden, it must be born again — of the spirit. 

It was the Lord God the mortal mind, and not God — 
the Divine mind — who said that it was not good for man 
to be alone and he would make a helpmeet for him, and 
he was speaking of the physical man. ' 'Therefore shall a 
man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave 
unto his wife and they shall be as one flesh/' declares the 
binding tie of sexual lust. This passage of Scripture de- 
clares it, as does natural law, to be the most binding tie 
of material creation. The Scripture says this lustful 
nature is so great and consuming over the physical man, 
"that he shall leave his father and his mother and shall 
cleave unto his wife"; that he shall forsake those who 
gave him natural birth, who nourished and cared for 
him in infancy, in order to gratify his sexual lust. The 
inspired writer here was using the strongest comparison 
known to the natural mind to convey the idea of the all 
consuming power of the law of sexual lust and its influence 
over man and its anti-spiritual nature. Moses here 
speaking through inspiration exhausted the power of 
human language and expression to convey the idea of 
the anti-spiritual nature and unholiness of marriage 
and the physical birth. According to natural law, the 
physical man is presumed to have the greatest love and 
the strongest tie for his father and his mother who gave 
him physical life and nursed him through infancy to 
maturity, yet the Scripture says, so consuming is the 
power of lust over the physical man, that he will leave 
his father and his mother — forsake them, and cleave 
unto the woman whom he makes his wife. "And their 
flesh shall be as one." This is mortal mind and not 
Divine mind speaking to the soul. Mind you, their 
flesh shall be one, not their spirits. Here Scripture de- 
clares marriage to be a fleshly institution and if marriage 
be a fleshly institution and as the flesh is anti-spiritual, 
of course the natural birth is anti-spiritual. But the 
Scripture tells us, Genesis 2: 25: "And they were both 
naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed." 



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The soul had not felt the death sting of the serpent. 
Their flesh had not become one, they had not known 
each other sexually and gratified the law of lust. Genesis 
3: 7. "And the eyes of them both were open and they 
knew that they were naked." The soul had felt the 
death sting of the serpent. They had then partaken of 
the forbidden fruit, yielded to the law of lust and known 
each other sexually and knew good from evil, that is, 
the difference between the physical and spiritual man and 
their natures. They had taken into their spiritual con- 
sciousness the law of lust and the carnal mind. Man had 
fallen and mind you they were man and wife. Their 
flesh had become one and they knew that marriage was 
a fleshly institution and not spiritual and holy. "And 
the Lord God said unto the woman what is it that thou hast 
done, and the woman said the serpent beguiled me and 
I did eat." Mortal mind here was condemning the soul 
for having sinned, (Genesis 3: 13). Here the woman's 
spiritual consciousness was speaking, and protesting 
against sin; was speaking to her through the power of 
the Spirit and her spiritual nature answered that the lust 
of flesh — "the serpent beguiled me" — that is, deceived me 
— "and I did eat" — that is I yielded to the power of the 
flesh and sexual passion. "And the Lord God called 
unto Adam and said, Where art thou? and he said, I heard 
a voice in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked 
and I hid myself. And he said, who told thee that thou was 
naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded 
thee thou shouldst not eat? And the man said, 
The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave 
me of the tree and I did eat." This is the same voice 
that spoke to Cain — mortal mind — sin — and it is within 
us all. That is to say, the woman according to sexual 
law and sexual passion had tempted Adam and the 
fleshly man Adam yielded to the law of lust and sexual 
passion. And unto Adam, He said, "Because thou hast 
hearkened unto the voice of thy wife and hast eaten of 
the tree of which I commanded thee, saying thou shalt 
not eat of it; cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow 
shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life." This voice 
that drove the soul out of the Garden was sin — lust — the 
same voice that marked Cain. (Genesis 3: 17). "And 
unto the woman He said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow 



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and thy. conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth 
children." Here's where mortal propagation had its 
origin, in sin. Had man overcome sin — subdued the earth 
— the flesh — mortal propagation would not have existed. 
(Genesis 3: 16). "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat 
bread till thou return unto the ground; for out of it was 
thou taken, for dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou 
return." (Genesis 3: 19). Here we have the penalty 
inflicted upon the physical man for indulging in the law 
of lust and gratifying the carnal mind and physical death 
is the final result. Sexual passion, lust and the carnal 
mind, mean physical death and likewise spiritual death, 
when the spiritual man takes the law of lust and the state 
of the carnal mind into his spiritual consciousness. 

"So he drove out the man and he placed at the east 
of the Garden of Eden cherubims and a flaming sword 
which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of 
life" (Genesis 3: 24.) He turned man out of his spiritual 
state of happiness and life when he took into his spiritual 
consciousness the law of the flesh, lust and sexual passion 
which were consuming fire to his spiritual life; and this 
fleshly nature and carnal mind like a flaming sword have 
turned every way to keep man from enjoying his state of 
spiritual life from the first day the first man yielded to 
his sexual passion and knew the first woman sexually. 

This fleshly nature and sexual passion have turned 
every way like a flaming sword and burning fire in the 
man's spiritual consciousness keeping him away from the 
tree of life — killing and burning out his spiritual life and 
preventing him from entering into his state of spiritual 
happiness and harmony with God and God's spiritual laws. 
It is the carnal thoughts of man's lust that closes the eyes 
of the soul, and prevents the soul from seeing God face 
to face. 

Around the generative organs and the sex and lust 
senses, and sexual passion, the battle of heaven and hell 
has raged from the time of the first man and the first 
woman and will until the end of time — until the flesh is 
no more and death has lost its power over life — until 
the fleshly man is no more and the spiritual man liveth 
and reigneth forever. 

"The Pharisees also came unto Him tempting Him 
and saying unto Him, Is it lawful for a man to put away 



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his wife for every cause? And He answered and said 
unto them — have ye not read that He which made them 
at the beginning made them male and female, and said. 
For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and 
cleave to his wife and their twain shall be one flesh? 
Wherefore they are no more twain but one flesh. What 
therefore God hath joined together let not man put 
asunder. They said unto Him, Why did Moses then 
command to give writing of divorcement and to put her 
away? He said unto them, Moses, because of the hard- 
ness of your hearts, suffered you to put away your wives ; 
but from the beginning it was not so. And I say unto you, 
whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, 
and shall marry another, committeth adultery; and who 
so marrieth her, which is put away, doth commit adultery. 
His disciples said unto him, if the case of a man be so 
with his wife, it is not good to marry. But he said unto 
them all, men cannot receive this saying save they to 
whom it is given. For there are some eunuchs which were 
so born from their mother's womb; and there are some 
eunuchs which were made eunuchs of men; and there 
be eunuchs which made themselves eunuchs for the king- 
dom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let 
him receive." 

The scholastic theologian who preaches a man-made 
theology, attempting to worship God through the physi- 
cal senses and by the carnal mind has quoted from the 
time of Jesus, the words of Jesus here quoted, as authority 
for marriage being Spiritual: "For this cause man shall 
leave father and mother and shall cleave to his wife and 
they twain shall be one flesh. Wherefore they are no 
more twain but one flesh. What, therefore, God hath 
joined together let not man put asunder, "has been au- 
thority for spiritualizing marriage and the natural birth 
and making it a sacrament of the church. They have 
interpreted the Master's words to mean one thing in 
order to please their physical senses and to gratify their 
sexual lust and the lust of the human family when the 
Master intended to convey just the opposite as the 
spiritual truth. He was here quoting Moses, "For this 
cause a man shall leave his father and his mother and cleave 
unto his wife," to demonstrate the consuming fire, pas- 
sion and death of fleshly lust. "And their twain shall be 



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one flesh." Here He declares that their separate flesh 
by the gratification of lust shall unite and become one — 
their two fleshly personalities shall be consumed into one 
by the burning power of lust. Mind you, he does not 
say ' 'Their spirits shall become a union by virtue of 
marriage." He here declares marriage to be a human and 
fleshly institution based on the law of sexual lust. "Where- 
fore they are no more twain but one flesh," meaning, of 
course, that after their fleshly natures and physical 
personalities have met through the law of sexual passion, 
so binding and consuming is this lustful nature, that the 
physical man and woman and their carnal minds meet 
and are held together and become one in reproducing 
the physical man. "What therefore God hath Ijoined 
together let not man put asunder." God joined them 
together as a result of sin and their flesh became one 
through sin and the soul lost the Image of God as the 
result. The Master intended to convey by this declara- 
tion the natural law of the physical man. The natural 
law of the physical man mates the male and female and 
the law of passion binds them and holds them together. 
And He meant here to declare for no man to attempt to 
interfere with natural law and that natural law mates the 
sexes and that God made all things including natural law, 
and therefore, what God hath joined together, through 
the natural law, let not man put asunder. He meant 
here to declare that natural law was greater than the works 
of man and that man could not intervene or prevent 
natural law, and should not try — or attempt to prevent 
it — the natural workings of natural law in the physical 
universe. He was here declaring that marriage was 
physical, and a human institution, and that it is not ac- 
cording to the artificial devices of man. Moses taught 
the same truth. And all history proves that the teach- 
ings of Moses, the Prophets, Jesus and the Apostles 
on this question are correct according to the natural law. 
Nature proves it also. The lower animal creation mates 
according to the natural law — they select their mates 
according to the wisdom of taste as provided by nature, 
with the result that they produce healthy and strong off- 
spring — and the lower animal creation reproduce from 
generation to generation and remain healthy and strong 
except when man interfered with their reproduction by 



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the wisdom of natural law through artificial intervention. 
Then the lower animal creation, that is, when man in- 
terferes with the natural reproduction according to the 
wisdom of natural law, becomes weak and sickly, frail 
and delicate and short lived. Natural law mates the 
sexes and Jesus intended to convey the principle that man 
should not interfere with this natural law and the sexes 
should not mate for artificial reasons and by artificial 
law. The human family — when in a barbaric state — 
obeyed the law here declared to be the truth by Jesus — 
and the human race was strong and healthy. But civil- 
ized man has violated this law and the sexes have mated 
for artificial purposes, for money, social position, position 
in state, and all other artificial reasons and man-made 
purposes, with the result that the human family has be- 
come physically and mentally weak, suffering and rack- 
ing in pain and sorrow — dying in misery and torture after 
a few days, and a short life of physical suffering and dis- 
appointment. The members of the sexes which God 
joined together through natural law in marriage — a fleshly 
institution — man has put asunder and mated the sexes 
for artificial reasons to suit his own convenience and the 
human family has paid the penalty. After the fall, 
the male and female sex was joined together as one flesh, 
and Moses divorced them on account of the hardness 
of the heart — lust — that they might remarry. 

But Jesus, turning from this subject as a fleshly 
institution according to the natural law — addresses His 
hearers as to the effect of the carnal mind and the physical 
man, as united in marriage by virtue of sexual passion, 
and, according to the natural law, upon the spiritual 
man and the spiritual life. He declares marriage to be 
a physical and fleshly institution based on the law of 
the passion of the sexes according to natural law and is 
anti-spiritual in its nature. "And he said unto them, 
he that putteth away his wife committeth adultery/' 
That is adultery according to the natural law. Adultery 
means, "not pure," He means here to say that "he who 
putteth away his wife, whom nature mated for him vio- 
lateth nature's law and mixes man's artificial law with 
natural law in order to gratify his lust." and by gratifying 
his lust the soul is made impure. He did not mean or 
intend to mean that marriage or the physical reproduction 



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is a spiritual institution. "All men cannot receive this 
saying save they to whom it is given. For there are some 
eunuchs which are so born from their mothers' womb 
and there are some eunuchs which were made eunuchs of 
men — and there be eunuchs which made themselves 
eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven's sake." "He that 
is able to receive, let him receive it." Here the Master 
declared that there "are few" who have reached that deep 
spiritual state of consciousness where they realize and un- 
derstand that marriage and the natural birth is based on 
the law of lust. Here He declared that the natural birth 
and the spiritual birth, the physical man and the spiritual 
man, are opposite natures and governed by opposite laws — 
one is the natural, the other is spiritual. "And there be 
eunuchs which have made themselves eunuchs for the 
Kingdom of Heaven's sake." Here He declares that there 
be some who have reached the state of spiritual conscious- 
ness and deep spiritual life whereby they are enabled 
to deny the law of lust— sexual passion — and shut out 
the carnal mind from their spiritual consciousness and 
spiritual life. "He that is able to receive it let him 
receive it." Here he admonishes his hearers to let all 
those who have reached that deep spiritual life and 
state of spiritual consciousness necessary to deny the 
law of lust and sexual passion, whereby the physical 
man is reproduced to receive His teachings, that mar- 
riage and the physical birth is natural and unholy and 
anti-spiritual, as a spiritual truth. The same thing that 
makes the sexes embrace and propagate causes them to 
despise each other sensuality. When lust is being gratified 
they embrace each other, and when the lust is satisfied they 
despise each other. When lust is not satisfied they are 
jealous of each other, and will kill and murder through 
jealousy. To enter the kingdom of God — of Life — the 
lust of the flesh must be overcome. 

"But I say unto you that whosoever looketh upon 
a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with 
her already in his heart" (Matt. 5: 28). Here the 
Master declares adultery to be one of spiritual con- 
sciousness—that is, adulterating the law of the Spirit 
with the law of the flesh, permitting consciousness of 
the lust of the flesh — to enter your spiritual consciousness 
— just as Adam and Eve did in the Garden of Eden, 



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and Adam and Eve were husband and wife. He that 
thinks sensual thoughts has an impure mind, and an 
impure soul. 

Gratifying the lust of the flesh is no less spiritual 
because it is performed under the human forms of a 
marriage ceremony, which is a human and physical insti- 
tution. Marriage is a human institution based on physi- 
cal and natural laws for the purpose of regulating the 
physical man in his domestic affairs and prompts the 
parents to care for the offspring. 

Marriage is a physical and not a spiritual institution — 
it is fleshly and not spiritual in its nature — and was so 
dealt with as a physical and fleshly institution and anti- 
spiritual by Moses, the Prophets, Jesus and the Apostles 
and the Fathers of the "Early Chruch." Marriages are 
of this world and not of the other world and pertain to 
the natural life and not to the spiritual life. 'They neither 
marry nor die any more'' in that life (Luke 20: 35-36. 
It is sin — the lust of the flesh — that makes them to marry 
and causes them to die. 

"The same day came to him the Sadducees, which 
say that there is no resurrection, and asked him, saying, 
Master, Moses said if a man die, having no children, 
his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto 
his brother. Now there were with us seven brethren; 
and the first when he had married a wife, deceased, and, 
having no issue, left his wife unto his brother; likewise 
the second also and the third, unto the seventh. And 
last of all the woman died also. Therefore in the resur- 
rection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all 
had her. Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do 
err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God, for 
in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in 
marriage, but are as sngels of God in Heaven. But as 
touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read 
that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am 
the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God 
of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the 
living" (Matt. 22: 23-32). God is the God of the Spirit 
and the man made in God's Image, and not the God of 
the fleshly man. "Then came unto him the Sadducees, 
which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him 
saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother 



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die and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, 
that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed 
unto his brother. Now there were seven brethren: and 
the first took a wife, and dying left no seed. And the 
second took her and died, neither left he any seed; and 
the third likewise. And the seven had her, and left no 
seed: last of all the woman died also. In the resurrection 
therefore when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of 
them? For the seven had her to wife. And Jesus an- 
swering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because 
ye know not the Scriptures, neither the power of God? 
For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither 
marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels 
which are in heaven. And as touching the dead, that they 
rise; have ye not read in the book of Moses how in the 
bush God spoke unto him, saying I am the God of Abra- 
ham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is 
not the God of the dead, but the God of the living; ye 
therefore do greatly err" (Mark 12: 18-27). We here see 
that Jesus dealt with marriage as a human institution — 
and not a spirtual institution — and that it pertains 
to the natural man and not the spiritual man. He 
dealt with it as a part of the nature of the fleshly 
man and being distinct and separate from the spirit- 
ual man. He declared it to be a part of the fleshly man 
and of this world, not to be connected with the spiritual 
man and the life to come. He drew the line -of demarca- 
tion between the physical man and the spiritual man and 
declared only the physical man to be concerned with 
marriage during the natural life. In other words, He 
declared it to be a human institution founded on the law 
of lust by which the physical man is propagated and in the 
very nature of things contrary to the spiritual man and the 
spiritual birth and the spiritual life to come. He dealt 
with it as an earthly institution rather than a heavenly 
institution and declared it to have no part in the spiritual 
kingdom. 

"Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto 
me; is it good for a man not to touch a woman, never- 
theless to avoid fornication let every man have his own 
wife and let every woman have her own husband" (1 
Cor. 7: 17). Here Paul declares that it is good for man 
not to touch a woman, that is to say, that sexual lust is 



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anti-spiritual in its very nature, and that sexual passion 
is anti-spiritual in its very nature, and that sexual pas- 
sion and lust is killing and death to the spiritual man, 
but if man cannot control his sexual passsion, it is better 
morally and as a human institution, for each man to have 
one woman and for each woman to have one man, and 
thereby curb and check and hold their lust in restraint — 
and not let it become the absolute master of the spiritual 
man by gratifying the lust of the flesh promiscuously, 
indulging sexually at will with the multitude of the oppo- 
site sex. And that it is better to marry than to abuse 
nature. 

"For I would that all men were even as I myself. 
But every man hath his proper gift of God — one after 
this manner and another after that. I say therefore to 
the unmarried and the widows — it is good for them if they 
abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them 
marry for it is better to marry than to burn" — to abuse 
nature (Cor. 1: 7-9). Here the Apostle declares that 
marriage is anti-spiritual and therefore the human birth 
is unholy and non-spiritual. That the war between the 
flesh and the Spirit is irrepressible and that the natural 
birth and the spiritual birth are irreconcilable. That one 
is of the flesh and the other of the Spirit. That marriage 
and the natural birth originate in the lust of the carnal 
mind — and that the spiritual birth originates in the 
spiritual mind. That one is of the flesh and the other of 
the Spirit. But if the lust of the physical man is so 
consuming that the spiritual man cannot control it that 
it is better to marry then to burn — that is to say, if the 
spiritual man cannot control the lust of the physical man 
that it is best for the physical man to marry, not as a 
matter of spirituality but as a matter of morality, and for 
nature's sake — for marriage is only a moral institution 
and not a spiritual institution. It is of this world and 
the flesh and not of the Spirit and the world to come. 

"Then when lust has conceived it bringeth forth 
sin — Cain — and sin when it is finished bringeth forth 
death" — the murderer — (1 James 1: 15). Here the Apos- 
tle declares that lust is based on the law of sin and death 
and when it is finished it bringeth forth death. The 
Apostle is in accord with Moses in the story of the Crea- 
tion; when Adam and Eve, the first woman and the first 



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man, were overcome by passion and the lust of the 
flesh, God said unto them "for this cause thou shalt 
return to dust." The physical man's creation is based 
upon the law of lust and passion. He comes into this 
world by the consuming lust of sexual passion which is 
anti-spiritual and contrary to the Spirit and Life, therefore 
must die. Lust is conceived in sin and when it is finished 
it is death. Man is conceived in sin according to the law 
of lust and sexual passion — that is the physical man — 
therefore he must die and return to dust. 

"Behold I was shaped in iniquity and in sin did my 
mother conceive me" (Psalm 55: 5). Here the Psalmist 
recognizes the difference between the physical man and 
the spiritual man, the spiritual birth and the physical 
birth. He recognizes the fact that he — the physical 
man — was conceived in passion and lust which is sin and 
anti-spiritual and contrary to the spiritual man and 
contrary to God and God's spiritual universe, and that 
he was shapen in iniquity in his mother's womb, and yet 
he, David, was of the house of Israel and the Forerunner 
of the Christ — that is, he, David, the spiritual man, was 
of the house of Israel, God's spiritual kingdom and the 
Forerunner of the Christ, the Chief and High Priest in 
God's spiritual universe — but that he, David, the physical 
man, was conceived through passion and by the law of 
lust and shapened in his mother's womb in iniquity and 
that he, David, the physical man was contrary to God and 
God's spiritual universe — in rebellion against God — 
God's spiritual laws and God's spiritual universe (Job 
14: 4). "Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? 
Not one." Here Job is asking how can the physical man 
be brought forth a spiritual being out of the physical 
woman who conceived him in lust and sexual passion? 
He recognizes that the physical man, being conceived in 
passion by the law of lust is unclean spiritually — that is 
anti-spiritual in his nature. "But man dieth, and waste th 
away; yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?" 
(Job 14: 10.) Here Job declares that the unclean man 
— that is, the physical man who is conceived in lust and 
sin — dieth and wasteth away and giveth up the ghost 
that the pysical man which is conceived in sin and 
lust perisheth and returneth unto dust and giveth up 
the spritual man which returneth to God who made 



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him in His own image. There is no reconciliation be- 
tween the physical man and the spiritual man. The 
physical man is conceived in lust and passion and must 
die, for he is anti-spiritual in his nature. The spiritual 
man was made by God in His own image and is life eternal 
and must and will live on eternally. 

"Which were born, not of blood, nor the will of flesh, 
nor the will of man, but of God" (John 1: 13). Here 
John recognizes the difference between the spiritual man 
and the physical man, the spiritual birth and the physical 
birth and that the spiritual birth and the spiritual man is 
of God and is life and light eternal and that the physical 
birth and the physical man is of the flesh — lust and pas- 
sion — and is destruction and death. "Verily, verily, 
I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot 
see the kingdom of God" (John 3: 3). Here Jesus was 
addressing Nicodemus, a Ruler of the Jews, and the Master 
was driving home the truth to the conscience of this 
Ruler and Teacher that there was a difference between the 
physical and and the spiritual man and that the physical 
man was conceived in sin and lust and in the end must 
die and that the spiritual man whom God made in His 
Image is light and life. The Master was declaring the 
eternal truth to the children of men that the physical 
conception and birth is sin and death and that the spirit- 
ual birth is light and life. He was declaring the eternal 
truth upon which God's spiritual universe was founded, 
that there is no harmony between Spirit and matter and 
that the physical man is conceived in lust and passion 
and must return to dust and that the physical creation 
must pass away and that the Spiritual Universe which is 
God, the Universal Spiritual Intelligence, shall live and 
reign for ever and ever. The Master was declaring the 
everlasting spiritual truth and spiritual law that the 
physical man conceived in passion, lust and sin hath no 
part in this spiritual kingdom. 

"Nicodemus saith unto Him, how can a man be 
born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into 
his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, 
"Verily, verily, I say unto thee except a man be born of 
water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of 
God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that 
which is born of the Spirit is Spirit" (John 4: 5, 6). Here 



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the Master clearly recognizes the difference between the 
spiritual and the natural birth and the spiritual and the 
natural man and the man born of the flesh has no part in 
the spiritual kingdom. His father may have been united 
to the woman who gave him physical birth by all the 
priestly rights of Christendom and Paganism and yet he 
still is conceived in sin and shaped in iniquity in his 
mother's womb and he, the fleshly man, who was brought 
forth as the result of the law of lust and passion hath 
no part in the spiritual kingdom. His parents may have 
stood at the Altar of Christendom and Paganism and all 
the priestcraft of the world may have performed marriage 
ceremonies and burned incense, yet their marriage was a 
human institution based on the law of flesh, passion and 
lust and the physical child born of the parents is conceived 
in sin and shapen in iniquity and knoweth not spiritual 
things and hath no part in God's spiritual kingdom. 

Marriage is a human institution and as such is so 
treated in the Bible. The Bible differentiates between 
marriage as a divine institution and a human institution; 
between marriage as fleshly institution and a spiritual 
institution. Nowhere in the Bible, from Genesis to 
Revelation is marriage considered as a spiritual institu- 
tion but Holy Writ treats the union of the sexes for the 
purpose of reproduction as a human and fleshly institu- 
tion and declares it to be the most binding tie known to 
the carnal mind and fleshly nature. It is the consumma- 
tion of the essence of the flesh and is so treated in Holy 
Writ. There is nothing else which binds the sexes to- 
gether in their fleshly nature like the law of passion bj/ 
which they reproduce. 

So binding and consuming is this law of lust and 
passion between the sexes that Holy Writ uses this fleshly 
law of lust of the sexes as a comparison to demonstrate 
the union of Christ and His church. Comparing Christ 
to the groom and the Church to a bride. The consuming 
essence of the law of lust and passion between the sexes 
is the most consuming fire known to fleshly nature and 
the carnal mind and hence the inspired writers use the 
tie of this consuming passion which holds the sexes to- 
gether to demonstrate and illustrate spiritually, the bind- 
ing tie between Christ and His church. "Let us be glad 
and rejoice, and give honor to Him; for the marriage of 



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the Lamb is come, and His wife hath made herself ready" 
(Rev. 19: 7). Here the inspired writer searching for an 
illustration to convey the idea to the mind of the spiritual 
man of the consuming love and binding tie of Christ and 
His church uses the analogy of the consuming passion of 
the lust of the sexes of the fleshly man. The passion of 
the sexes is the lust which holds the carnal mind and binds 
the sexes together. The love of the Spirit and spiritual 
things is that which holds and binds Christ and His 
church — the spiritual man and Christ — together. One is 
a fleshly tie and fleshly union, the other is a spiritual tie 
and a spiritual union. 

We do not intend to convey the idea that marriage 
is an immoral institution but that it is not a spiritual 
institution. Nowhere in the Bible is it treated as a 
spiritual and holy institution but Holy Writ treats it 
as a human and moral institution. The Human man, is 
propagated by the law of lust and passion, and is therefore 
anti-spiritual in his nature and the means whereby he is 
conceived and propagated is anti-spiritual, but to curb 
his passion and lustful nature, the law of nature mates 
the sexes for the purpose of propagation and this mating 
of the sexes should be and is, in all civilized countries, 
treated as a human and moral institution. Holy Writ 
recognizes this law and deals with the mating of the sexes 
physically and marriage as a human and moral institution 
"Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far 
above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely 
trust in her, so that he shall have no need to spoil" 
(Proverbs 31: 10-11). "A virtuous woman is a crown to 
her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rotten- 
ness in his bones" (Proverbs 12: 4). 

"But speak thou the things which become sound 
doctrine; that the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, 
sound in faith, in charity, in patience. The aged women 
likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holi- 
ness, no false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers 
of good things; that they may teach the young women 
to be sober, to love their husband, to love their children, 
to be discreet, chaste, keepers of home, good, obedient 
to their own husbands, that the word of God be not 
blasphemed" (Titus 2: 1-5). "Let the deacons be the 
husband of one wife, ruling their children and their own 
houses well" (Timothy 3:12). 



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Here we see that marriage is treated in Holy Writ 
not as a spiritual institution but as a human and moral 
institution. That the mating of the sexes for the purpose 
of propagating the race and the physical man is recog- 
nized as a necessity according to natural law and is treated 
according to natural law and not according to spiritual 
law. That the sexes should mate and the lust of the 
sexual passion should only be indulged for the purpose of 
propagating the race and reproducing the physical man 
is clearly recognized by Scripture, and that this should 
be done in the marriage state only. And the physical 
man being anti-spiritual, the indulgence of lust and 
sexual passion, even for the purpose of propagating the 
race and producing physical man, is anti-spiritual. There 
is not anything spiritual in mating the sexes and gratifying 
sexual passion and the lust of the flesh. The Scripture 
clearly condemns it as anti-spiritual and contrary to 
every spiritual law and the spiritual man. "For Adam 
was first formed, and then Eve. And Adam was not de- 
ceived, but the woman being deceived was in the trans- 
gression. Notwithstanding she shall be saved in child- 
bearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness 
and sobriety" (Timothy 1: 13-15). Here the Scripture 
clearly recognizes that the fall of man was sexual inter- 
course and that it was Eve's passion which tempted her 
and that Adam yielded to the lust of the flesh as tempted 
by the passion of the woman and that the physical man 
is conceived in sin; however by observing the law of the 
Spirit and being spiritual minded, this transgression of the 
spiritual law by the law of lust and passion may be over- 
come. There is no sin without sex and no marriage 
without sex. 

Holy Writ, from Genesis to Revelation, declares the 
physical man is conceived in sin and shapen in iniquity 
and is brought into existence by virtue of the law of lust 
and passion, which is anti-spiritual ; and treats the mating 
of the sexes and the marriage realtion as a human insti- 
tution for the purpose of propagating the physical man. 
Marriage was instituted for the purpose of preserving 
morality and regulating the passion and lust of the flesh. 
Marriage is based on natural and not spiritual law. Ac- 
cording to natural law it is the instinct of the animal crea- 
tion for the parent to care for the offspring. This is the 



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wisdom of the economy of natural creation and yet it is 
based on the law of selfishness which is anti-spiritual. The 
young child when born needs care and attention that it 
may be raised to maturity; so does the offspring of all 
other animal creation. As a matter of creative wisdom 
the instinct is placed in the parent of all animal creation to 
care for its offspring. This is necessary in order that the 
offspring may be nourished, cared for, and raised to ma- 
turity. This law runs through all animal creation and it 
is as necessary with the lower animals as it is with man and 
yet it is based on the law of selfishness which in the very 
nature of things is anti-spiritual. The parent — the physi- 
cal father and mother — care for their physical child, love 
it according to natural law, nourish it, care for it, raise it 
because it is a part of their physical life and offspring of 
their physical life. Not because inherently they care for 
the child, but according to natural law and the law of 
selfishness which is anti-spiritual they wish to perpetuate 
their own physical existence. 

All other children, according to spiritual law and 
spiritual life, would be just as dear and just as sacred 
to them for there is no selfishness in the spiritual kingdom 
and under spiritual law by which the spiritual kingdom is 
governed. The material creation and the animal kingdom 
is governed by natural law which is selfishness. The 
spiritual kingdom is governed by Divine law, which is 
Love. Jesus said: "Moses granted divorcement on 
account of the hardness of your hearts;" on account of in- 
dulging the lust of the flesh, until they are disgusted 
with each other. "But in the beginning it was not so;" 
their hearts were not hardened until they indulged in the 
lust of the flesh, for God made them male and female. 
"What God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." 
God did not join them together until after they fell. 
"In the beginning it was not so," conception in the begin- 
ning was to have been spiritual. 

Marriage is based not only on the law of lust but 
mutual selfishness. The female mates with the male 
because she thinks that he can give her the greatest 
amount of pleasure in gratifying her lust and passion, 
and the male mates with the female because, according 
to natural law, she appeals most intensely and con- 
sumingly to his passion and lust. When mated sexual- 



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ly, and each satisfies the passion and lust of the other; 
the natural man calls this "love" and the carnal mind 
is satisfied and is in an ideal state of carnal happiness. 
But if they are unevenly mated sexually the world for 
politeness' sake says "they are unhappily married." 
Out of this law of mutual selfishness rages the passion of 
jealousy and envy. If they are mated sexually and each 
satisfies the lust and passion of the other, they are jealous 
of each other. The female lives in a constant state of 
fear that some other member of her sex will attract the 
passion and lust of her mate and that he will be drawn 
away from her and divide his lust and passion with 
another member of her sex. The male is continually in a 
state of uneasiness and watching his mate for fear that 
she may be attracted by some other member of his sex 
who will prove more satisfying to her, her passion and 
lustful nature. This law runs all through the animal 
kingdom. It is lust which holds sexes together — and 
lust and passion and selfishness are based on the natural 
law and the carnal mind, and are anti-spiritual in their 
nature. The male does not mate with the female for 
the joy, the pleasure and the happiness he can give to the 
female, but for the pleasure and the gratification that the 
female can give him in the satisfaction of his lust and 
passion. The female does not mate with the male to 
please and to gratify the male but for the gratification of 
her lust and sexual passion. Marriage is based on mutual 
selfishness of lust and passion. Out of this lust and 
passion comes jealousy, envy and hatred. The gratifica- 
tion of lust and passion is the essence of selfishness. It 
is of the lust and sex senses. When the male suspects that 
the female is not true to him he wants to kill and murder. 
When the female doubts the male, hatred and murder 
rages within her. Around the selfishness of lust and 
passion, the war of hell rages and battles against the 
Spirit of heaven. Either sex may be generous and kind 
hearted to all other material things but when it comes to 
lust and passion, will kill and murder. The law of selfish- 
ness reigns supremely then. The female to whom the 
male declares the most intense devotion when she is 
gratifying his lust and passion today will murder her 
tomorrow when he doubts her loyalty. The female who 
today weeps tears of joy in her devotion to the male who 



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gratifies her lust and passion and whom she claims as her 
own, will murder him tomorrow, if she believes another 
has gained the affection of his carnal mind. Mutual 
selfishness and the law of lust and passion is the bond 
which holds the sexes together. That is what the Scrip- 
ture means when it says "their flesh shall be one." 

Where is the student of human nature who has not 
observed the devotion of the sexes to each other when 
each was gratifying the lust and passion of the other 
and then how hatred, malice and murder reign within 
their hearts when they doubted the loyalty to each other 
in fleshly things. 

0! man would thou understand the Bible? Would 
thou know God's Revelation to man? If so, know thy- 
self. God's revelation is a perfect picture of thy hu- 
man and spiritual self. The Bible is the Mirror into 
which thou canst look and see the depravity of thy 
physical self and the divinity of thy spiritual self. 

When the sexes are equally mated their love is mu- 
tual. When one gives out sexually before the other 
then the law of nature creates discord. The one that 
is the weaker sexually looks upon the other with hatred 
and as a brute. The one that is stronger sexually looks 
upon the other with contempt and goes elsewhere to 
gratify the lust of the flesh. Then dissatisfaction and 
disloyalty and trouble begin. Their flesh is no more 
one. They are mismated. They are unequally mated 
sexually. Here is where the trouble in marriage relation 
has its origin and the world does not understand it. It is 
a fleshly institution and not a spiritual institution and 
unless they are mated sexually the flesh will not hold them 
together in harmony and as the world calls it "in love.", 

When they are mated sexually and each gratifies 
the passion of the other and if nature holds out equally 
with them, they live it out together happily and the 
world calls it "a happy marriage." Each can satisfy 
the selfish fleshy lust of the other and their flesh is one. 
As they grow older and nature begins to fail them and as 
their passions and lust begin to decline, their spiritual 
natures develop. They then live on the romances of the 
lust of the flesh of the past, and as the sunset of life goes 
down, turn their minds to spiritual things and as the end 
draws near they become more and more spiritual and 



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thus live out the lust of the flesh together and by degrees 
develop into spiritual things and spiritual lives. By 
degrees they go from the flesh to the Spirit. Jesus said, 
when He came to be baptized, of John "Suffer it to be so 
now, for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness' ' 
(Matt. 3: 15). Baptism is the symbol of the Holy Spirit 
coming into the Soul and restoring the Soul dead spirit- 
ually through the death sting of the Serpent to life. 
The soul must be restored to life through the Divine mind 
being revealed to it as life before the soul can know God. 
The lust of the flesh must be removed from the mind, for 
the soul to come into a conscious realization of God as 
life. 

This fleshly man in his selfish nature lives for the 
paramount purpose of trying to perpetuate himself. 
The consuming desire of his nature is to perpetuate him- 
self by producing the physical man — to reproduce him- 
self in offspring. Then he follows the physical man to the 
graveyard and there erects tombstones to his physical 
offspring and to his mate of passion and lust in an effort 
to perpetuate himself. Every tombstone in the grave- 
yard and cemetery represents the consuming desire of the 
physical man to perpetuate himself. 

The gratifying of the lust of the flesh, whereby 
the physical man is reproduced, not only kills the phys- 
ical man but the spiritual man as well. The nerve sys- 
tem runs into the -spinal cord and the spinal cord pro- 
jects into the brain. The brain is not the nervous sys- 
tem but the dynamo wherein the life current is sent out 
over the nervous system. The life current is generated 
in the brain and is telegraphed over the nervous system 
from the brain. The nervous system is connected with 
the brain at the end of the spinal cord just as the tele- 
graph wires are connected with the dynamo where they 
come in contact with the dynamo. When the sexual 
relations take place the nervous shock weakens the ner- 
vous system and the power of the brain to transmit the 
life current and burns out the nervous system just as an 
overcharge of electricity flashing over the wire weakens 
the telegraph wire and burns out the dynamo. This life 
current which is generated in and through the brain is the 
innate mind of the spiritual man. By taking the lustful 
nature into man's consciousness he destroys his spiritual 



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life; and indulging the lust of the flesh, kills the physical 
man and destroys his spiritual life. Jesus said, "Oh, ye 
generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation 
of hell," — the Greek reads, "Ye offsprings of lust, how can 
ye escape the damnation of death." The sting of the 
serpent — lust — must be eradicated from the soul for the 
soul to see God, and to have life. The human race, by 
giving away to the lust of the flesh, permitting sexual 
passion to rule and control the human family, has become 
physically weak, decrepit -and is suffering from all kinds 
of diseases as well as becoming spiritually dead. If the 
human family could be aroused to the truth of this nat- 
ural and spiritual law, and only indulge the sexual pas- 
sions for the purpose of reproducing; exclude from the 
mind the thoughts of lust and passion and only indulge 
in spiritual thoughts, the human family would live out 
a natural life of good to old age without disease, suffering 
and pain and die a natural death when the nervous sys- 
tem by degrees had gradually worn out according to the 
law of the flesh and would no longer act as a conductor for 
spiritual life and vitality into the physical man. 

Three-fourths of the females of the human race die 
at that period known as the "change of life," and why? 
Because for generations the physical man has lived for 
the lust of the flesh and by indulging his fleshly pas- 
sions has from generation to generation weakened the 
power of the brain to act as a generator of the life current 
and of the nerve system as a conductor of the life current. 
When the female reaches that period known as "the change 
of life" and sexual organs decline and fail to discharge the 
poisonous matter peculiar to her sex, accumulated in her 
system, her nervous system is too weak to dispose of it 
and eliminate it from her system through the kidneys and 
bowels and pores of the skin. Hence, it remains in her 
body and gradually poisons her entire system; disarranges 
her nervous system and brain until physical death fol- 
lows. Moses and the Teachers of Israel dealt with all of 
these physical laws as revealed to them and man has never 
been able to improve upon them. They knew that the 
carnal is death, and that the spiritual Is life. 

The theologian of "scholastic theology" preaches 
to the natural man and his physical senses because the 
natural man wants fleshly and physical things preached 



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to his physical senses and carnal mind. The spiritual man 
is separate from the physical man and the physical man 
cannot understand spiritual things and the spiritual mind. 
Marriage and the natural birth by degrees was adopted 
into the church as a part of the faith of the church because 
the church gradually drifted from the spiritual man to the 
physical man. By degrees, from generation to genera- 
tion, the church as a spiritual institution became a physi- 
cal institution of the material man. The carnal mind 
naturally worships through the physical senses and the 
physical god and exists for the lust of the flesh and be- 
lieves the natural birth to be the only and the real birth. 
The carnal man worships the sex senses as his god. The 
spires and steeples on the churches of Christendom in 
our modern civilization represent this idea. The pagans 
believed in the physical man as divine and the natural 
birth as holy. The sexual organs represented to their 
minds the means of immortality. That is, the power of 
man to reproduce himself and to perpetuate the human 
race and hence they worship the sexual organs as immortal. 

The steeples and spires that materialized Chris- 
tianity, under the direction of the carnal mind, has placed 
on the churches of Christendom pointing heavenward 
represent the generative organs of the male, the idea 
having been taken from pagan religions. 

Carrying out this physical law accounts for why 
more females attend church since Christianity has been 
materialized and adulterated to appeal to the physical 
senses of man, then men. The priests, ministers and 
pastors are males and hence unconsciously the phys- 
ical nature of the female is appealed to. In their 
physical nature they become church workers. But the 
male has largely lost interest in the materialized theo- 
logical system which passes for modern Christianity; 
but change the condition and let the priesthood become 
priestess and the pastors and preachers women, young 
and attractive so as to appeal to the law of the opposite 
sex, and men will become the church goers and the 
women will remain at home. When the pastor becomes 
aged, but spiritual, he is not attractive to the opposite 
sex physically, and he is disposed of and a young man who 
appeals to the sexual laws is placed in his stead. We 
see this daily. 



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There is one God — A Universal Spiritual Intelli- 
gence and His expression and manifestation of Himself 
to the spiritual man whom He made in His image is the 
Holy Ghost, the awakening the soul to life from the death 
sting of the serpent, is the Holy Spirit and the Holy Life; 
and Christ, conceived by the power of the Spirit and who 
was with the Father from all eternity and in harmony 
with every spiritual law and the Spiritual Universe and 
a part of the Universal Spiritual life, is His son. And this 
is the God of the Bible, the God of Revelation. Christ 
only claimed to be the Son of the Father — the one God — 
the Universal Spiritual Intelligence which created and 
governs all things and He only claimed the Holy Ghost to 
be the manifestation of that God as life to His spiritual 
creatures. The idea of a multiplicity of gods had its origin 
in the carnal mind of the fleshly man of the heathen re- 
ligions. The idea originated in the sex and lust senses of 
mortal man. And they had their chief god and subordi- 
nate gods whom the chief god controlled and directed. 
The carnal mind and physical man appealing to the physi- 
cal senses of the material man brought this idea into and 
adopted it as a part of the Christian religion; which is 
contrary to the Bible, for Revelation teaches that God is a 
Universal Intelligent Spirit and manifests Himself to His 
creatures spiritually and that Christ was conceived by 
the power of the Spirit and is His spiritual Son conceived 
without lust — law of the flesh — and sexual passion, and 
upon this cardinal principle and divine truth, the truth 
of the Christian system stands or falls. And by the 
power of this Divine Truth, He overcame death and came 
out of the grave. 

The heathen and pagan religions made the gratifica- 
tions of the lust of the flesh and the physical birth pleasing 
to the gods and divine in the sight of the gods; and the 
carnal mind and the physical man brought over the same 
idea and adopted it as a part of the Christian system. 

But the heathens and the pagans were wiser than 
the physical man who pretends to believe in the Chris- 
tian system. The heathens and the believers in the pagan 
religions mated according to natural law. They let the 
economy and wisdom of nature mate the sexes. Sexual 
passion and the lust of the flesh being the all controlling 
power of the physical man, they permitted it in its wisdom 



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to work out its own destiny and the sexes to mate as 
they were drawn to each other sexually according to nat- 
ural law, with the result that they produced strong and 
vigorous physical men and women. The lower animal 
kingdom is governed by the same law. But when the 
physical man adultered the Christian system and _ at- 
tempted to spiritualize marriage and the natural birth 
and at the same time married for artificial purposes — 
wealth, social position, family influence, legal caste — 
regardless of natural law, he began to produce a race 
of physical weaklings, dwarfs, imbeciles, racked with 
pain and suffering. 

Moses and the inspired writers dealt with this ques- 
tion, and Revelation tells us the truth concerning it; and 
the physical man and the carnal mind cannot improve 
upon what God has revealed to man. 

The priesthood of the Catholic world attempts to con- 
trol this carnal mind and law of lust by the confessional box ; 
ministers of the Protestant world attempt to control the 
passion of man and the lust of the flesh by appealing to 
the personality of man. Neither teach the people the 
truth. The human family knows that there is something 
wrong, the spiritual man realizes that he is in bondage 
to some power and he cries out to be free, but he does 
not realize that this power which he is bound to in shackles 
and slavery and which is destroying his spiritual life is 
the fleshly man; and that the power of the fleshly man 
over the spiritual man has its source of evil and bond- 
age in the sexual organs, sexual passion and the lust 
of the flesh — the sex and lust senses. And as a rule, the 
priest and the minister and the theologian, who should 
instruct the human family as to this truth, are the most 
ignorant people of the entire human family as to the most 
vital truth which affects the human race. They have 
confounded the physical man with the spiritual man and 
the natural birth with the spiritual birth. The human 
race is groping in darkness but those who should show 
the way in the path of truth, life and light, are in dark- 
ness themselves. It is the blind leading the blind. 

Lust is lust, whether gratified under the ceremony 
of marriage or by fornication or adultery. The grati- 
fication of the lust of the flesh is contrary to the spirit- 
ual man and spiritual life. We do not mean to say that 



148 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

the human family can, would or should absolutely ab- 
stain from sexual relation. It is necessary for the pro- 
pagation of the race. But we do mean to say that it is 
anti-spiritual and that the lust of the flesh should be 
controlled and subdued by the spiritual man and kept 
under the control of the spiritual man as much as possible. 
We do not mean to say that marriage should not be in- 
stituted and maintained by the human family for it is 
necessary according to natural law and according to the 
law of lust and the flesh to maintain morals and social 
order. But we do intend to say that it is a human and 
fleshly institution and not a holy and spiritual institution. 

Moses and Jesus dealt with this idea. The Bible 
declares marriage to be a human institution and that it 
should be regulated and controlled for that purpose. 
Scripture clearly teaches that when the sexes mate they 
should be true to each other as a matter of morals, and 
for the purpose of propagating the physical man, but 
nowhere does revelation teach us that it is a spiritual 
institution. Scripture further teaches us that the sexes 
should mate for the purpose of propagating the human 
race and should control and subdue their passions and 
fleshly lust and not commit adultery and fornication, 
as a matter of morals. Natrual law teaches the same 
truth. The lower animal kingdom is controlled by 
natural law and obeys its decree in this respect. But 
the natural law which is taught us in revelation is based 
on selfishness, and the lust of the physical man is anti- 
spiritual and contrary to the spiritual man. 

"When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, 
and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes, 
because he hath found some uncleanliness in her; then 
let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in 
her hand, and send her out of his house. And when 
she is departed out of his house, she may go and be an- 
other man's wife" (Deuteronomy 24: 1-2). Here Moses, 
for the sake of the law of lust, where the sexes were not 
mated, and were untrue to each other, granted a di- 
vorce — but Jesus declaring with all of His spiritual 
nature that marriage was not a spiritual institution 
but a human institution based on the law of passion 
and lust gave us the spiritual interpretation of the Mo- 
saic law. "But I say unto you that whosoever shall put 



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away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth 
her to commit adultery; and whosoever shall marry her 
that is divorced committeth adultery" (Matt. 5: 32). 
Here the Master recognizes the necessity of restraining 
the lust of the flesh by the mating of the sexes as a human 
institution based on the lust of the flesh. Man should 
have only one wife, not because marriage is spiritual, but 
because it is of the flesh. 

"And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of 
divorcement, and to put her away. And Jesus answered 
and said unto them, "For the hardness of your heart he 
wrote you this precept but from the beginning of creation 
God made them male and female. For this cause shall 
a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to 
his wife" (Mark 10: 4-7). Here the Master declared that 
it was the law of lust — that is, the hardening of the heart 
against spiritual things, the physical man overcoming 
the spiritual man, that caused Moses to grant divorce 
according to the Mosiac law. But He declared it to be 
contrary to both the moral and to the spiritual man. 
In the same comment He declared marriage to be based 
on the natural law — the lust of the physical man and 
that this natural law should mate the sexes and in morals 
hold them together. "But from the beginning of creation 
God made them male and female and for this cause shall 
a man leave his father and his mother and cleave unto his 
wife" (Matt. 10: 6-7). That is, in the beginning, accord- 
ing to the natural law, they were made male and female 
in the mortal creation, and that the lust of the flesh and 
sexual passion are so consuming between the sexes as to 
cause them to leave their parents and cleave unto each 
other, and that this natural law when yielded to in order 
to gratify the lust of the flesh, should be obeyed in marriage 
and its decrees observed, and for the sake of moral and 
social order and preserving the identity of the offspring 
the sexes when they once mate should remain together. 

All of these physical laws are revealed in God's 
Word and were taught by Moses and the inspired writers 
as physical laws but theology has attempted to spiritualize 
them. Revelation deals with but two truths; the physical 
man with his anti-spiritual nature, how to control and 
regulate him and to subdue him to the spiritual man; and 
the spiritual man whom God created in His own image. 



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But man-rnade theology has confused the two and has 
attempted to spiritualize the physical man into the spirit- 
ual man. Revelation clearly differentiates between the 
spiritual birth and the physical birth — the spiritual man 
and the physical man. Upon this truth depends the law 
and the gospel — upon this truth depends the Divin- 
ity of Jesus Christ — the life to come and immortality. 

"For as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be 
made alive" (1 Cor. 15: 22). That is, in the Garden of 
Eden, which was the first man's state of spiritual happi- 
ness and life when he was in spiritual harmony with God 
and God's piritual laws and God's spiritual universe, the 
physical man yielded to the law of lust and sexual passion 
when tempted by the first woman, his wife, and took 
into his spiritual consciousness the law of the carnal 
mind, fleshly lust and sexual passion which was death 
to his spiritual nature; but Christ being perfect in Spirit 
was not subject to the law of lust and sexual passion and 
the carnal mind, but in perfect harmony with the spiritual 
nature of the Father, spiritual laws and the spiritual uni- 
verse, and the spiritual man by partaking of Christ's 
spiritual nature can be redeemed from this state of con- 
sciousness wherein the law of lust and sexual passion has 
entered his state of spiritual consciousness and be restored 
to a perfect state of spiritual consciousness with the Father 
and in harmony with God's spiritual laws and the spiritual 
universe. The man was turned out of Eden, from the 
Image of God, on account of lust — sin — and lust — sin — 
must be overcome for the soul to see God again. This is 
Redemption; this is Salvation; this is heaven. The 
physical birth is of the physical man and non-spiritual. 
The spiritual birth is of God who made the spiritual man 
and partakes of the heavenly nature. 

If marriage be holy — if the physical conception 
and birth be spiritual — then we would have Heaven on 
this earth; and the physical man would be immortal 
and the brotherly love of the physical man taught by 
the infidel and materialistic world, which the priesthood 
of the Catholic world and the ministers of the Protestant 
world have joined in proclaiming, in preaching a physical 
god to the physical senses of men, would be possible here 
and we would have Heaven on this earth. But the 
physical man and the carnal mind are anti-spiritual and 



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at war with the spiritual man — and marriage and the 
natural birth is unholy and anti-spiritual and they must 
die and the spiritual man must be freed from the bond- 
age to them for the spiritual man to come into his own 
in the spiritual kingdom. 

Upon the truth of the this principle, depends the Im- 
maculate and Supernatural Conception of Jesus Christ, 
His divinity and the immortality of the spiritual man. 
Marriage is honorable — moral — but of the flesh and not of 
the spirit. 



CHAPTER XV. 
THE ORIGIN OF EVIL AND SIN. 

God is Light. God is Life. God is Spirit. God 
is Good. God is Love. If God be Spirit, the opposite 
and the Absence of God must be matter. If God be Love, 
the opposite and the absence of God must be hatred and 
malice. If God be Light the Absence and the opposite 
of God must be darkness. If God be Spirit and Life, the 
opposite and the absence of God must be matter and 
death. If God be Good the absence and the opposite of 
God must be evil. If God be Life, the opposite and the 
absence of God must be death. The Scripture teaches us 
that before the material creation was created the universe 
was all spiritual and that God, the Universal Spiritual 
Intelligence, reigned supreme in His spiritual kingdom and 
that there were spiritual creatures — members of His 
spiritual kingdom. These were angels — holy and spiritual 
in their nature. They possessed Light and Life; they 
were in harmony with God's spiritual universe— His laws 
and spiritual life. Their thoughts were His thoughts. 
They thought His mind. They were His messengers 
and reflected His Image and mind. 

The Scripture teaches us that the Devil — Satan — 
one of these angels — rebelled against God's spiritual uni- 
verse and the spiritual laws which govern and regulate it — 
and became the Fallen Angel. This Fallen Angel violated 
God's spiritual laws which govern His spiritual universe 
and partook of darkness rather than Light — death rather 
than Life. "And the seventy returned again with joy, 
saying, Lord, even the devils — evil thoughts, thoughts of 
the flesh— are subject unto us through thy name. And He 
said unto them, "I beheld Satan as lightning fall from 
heaven." The mind of Satan is the mind of the flesh. 
(Luke 10: 17-18). "And the angels which kept not their 
first estate, but left their own habitation he hath reserved 

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in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment 
of the great day" (Jude 6). "Be sober, be vigilant, 
because your adversary the Devil — the thoughts of the 
flesh — as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he 
may devour" (Peter 1: 8). "He that commiteth sin is 
of the devil for the devil sinneth from the beginning, for 
this purpose the Son of God was manifested that he might 
destroy the works of the devil" (John 1: 3-8). Hereafter, 
I will not talk much with you : for the Prince of this world 
cometh, and hath nothing in me". His power is in the 
flesh and the carnal mind of the flesh is his mind (John 
14: 30). "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, 
but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains 
of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment: and spared 
not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a 
preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon 
the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom 
and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an over- 
throw, making them an example unto those that after 
should live ungodly; and delivered just Lot, vexed with 
the filthy conversation of the wicked: for that righteous- 
man dwelleth among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed 
his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful 
deeds; the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of 
temptation and to reserve the unjust unto the day of 
judgment to be punished" (2 Peter 2: 4-9). Death 
is the absence of God as the only life. 

Here we clearly see by the authority of revelation 
that before the material creation, all was Spirit, Light 
and Life and that there were spiritual beings who in- 
habited God's spiritual universe and enjoyed their spir- 
itual state in perfect harmony with the laws of Light and 
Life of God's spiritual nature and His spiritual universe. 
That some of these spiritual beings rebelled against God's 
spiritual universe and its spiritual laws and His spiritual 
nature — rebelled against spiritual Light, spiritual Life 
and Spirit, which is God. Having rebelled against Light 
they partook of darkness, having rebelled against Life 
they partook of death, and having rebelled against Spirit, 
which is God, they partook of matter and flesh. In the 
very nature of things there can be no light without the 
opposite darkness, no life without the opposite death, 
no Spirit without the opposite nature which is manifested 



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in matter and flesh, no good without the opposite evil. 
God is the only life and light in the universe, and the 
absence of God as life and light is death and darkness — this 
is the state of those fallen beings — God cast them out 
from His presence as Spirit — light and life — and having 
been cast out of His presence as Spirit — light and life — 
they partook of matter — darkness and death — matter 
— darkness and death — is the absence of spirit — light and 
life. 

God is Good, Light, Life, and Spirit and all that 
existed in His spiritual nature, mind, and universe had 
the attributes of Good, Light, Life and Spirit. But when 
the spiritual beings which were a part of His spiritual 
universe rebelled against His universe, its laws and its 
spiritual nature, they partook of the opposite nature and 
became the opposite in their attributes to God, His spirit- 
ual laws and spiritual universe. They partook of the 
nature of darkness, evil and death, which is manifested 
in the material creation and the fleshly man. 

Revelation teaches us that the Chief of the spiritual 
beings who rebelled against God, God's spiritual laws and 
God's spiritual universe is the Devil. 

The power of the fallen spirits, their nature and 
attributes which is contrary to God and to God's spirit- 
ual universe is manifested and represented in the material 
man. 

The spiritual man was created in God's image and 
in accordance and in harmony with God's spiritual 
nature, His spiritual laws and His spiritua universe. 
The material man in his fleshly nature, who is con- 
ceived in passion and born of woman partakes of the 
nature of the fallen spirits, the Chief of whom, Revela- 
tion tells us, was the Devil, who are out of harmony with 
God's spiritual nature — His spiritual laws and spiritua] 
universe — and are in a state of rebellion against God. 
God is the positive and only real life there is. Death is 
the negative and the Absence of God as life. "In the day 
that God created man in the likeness of God made He 
him; male and female created He them; and blessed 
them and called their name Adam in the day when they 
were created. And Adam lived an hundred and thirty 
years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image, 
and called his name Seth." Genesis 5: 1-3. We observe 



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here "In the day that God created man," "He created 
him in His likeness." This was the spiritual man whom 
God created of spirit and he is a part of Universal Spiritual 
Life, created into a spiritual being. We further observe 
"Adam begat a son in his own likeness and after his image" ; 
Adam here represents the physical and material man 
and the son that "He begat in his own image and like- 
ness" — represents the fleshly man who is anti-spiritual 
and contrary to the spiritual man that God created and 
is mortal and must die. This Adam man is the material 
man "And the son he begat in his own likeness and image" 
partakes of the nature of the fallen angels who rebelled 
against God and God's spiritual universe. "This Adam 
man" represents the nature and the attributes of the flesh 
— the Devil — and the fallen angels. "The Adam man" 
with his fleshly nature and carnal mind is the personifica- 
tion of the Devil and the fallen angels and is in rebellion 
against God and God's laws and God's spiritual universe. 
The means by which this "Adam man" is conceived 
and brought into existence is anti-spiritual and contrary 
to God's spiritual universe and His spiritual laws." As 
God is the real life, spirit and light in the universe — the 
Absence of God in mind and thought — must be death, 
matter and darkness. This is the state of mind of those 
fallen beings, and this mortal creation is the manifesta- 
tion of their minds. It is unreal and does not exist in the 
God mind — and must cease as God comes to light, and the 
souls of men return to the Image of God. "Now the 
Serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which 
the Lord God had made. "And he said unto the woman, 
yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the Gar- 
den? And the woman said unto the Serpent, we may eat 
of the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of 
the tree which is in the midst of the Garden, God hath said, 
ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye 
die." Genesis 3: 1-3. Of course, the serpent here repre- 
sents the woman's fleshly passion and "the tree," the 
gratification of passion, by which the fleshly man is pro- 
pagated, which is anti-spiritual and is spiritual death. 
"And the serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not 
surely die." Genesis 2: 4. Of course, the serpent here 
represents the passion of the woman by which the physical 
man is propagated, and overcame the spiritual woman. 



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' 'And the Lord God said unto the Serpent, Because thou 
hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above 
every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, 
and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life." Genesis 
3: 14. Here God pronounces His judgment and declares 
His wrath against the Serpent, which represents the 
passion of the woman, which overcame the spiritual na- 
ture of the woman and caused the conception and prop- 
agation of the physical man. The physical man being 
anti-spiritual in his nature, the means whereby he is 
conceived being contrary to God's spiritual laws and God's 
spiritual universe, is in rebellion against God and spiritual 
things. Lust and sexual passion being the means of 
propagating the physical man and the physical man being 
anti-spiritual and contrary to the man that God made in 
His own image, the means whereby he is conceived is 
contrary to God's spiritual nature, God's spiritual laws and 
God's spiritual universe. God — life — the Divine mind 
told the woman that she should die if she touched it. 
The Lord God — mortal mind — made the serpent and the 
serpent deceived the woman, and the Lord God — mortal 
mind — turned her — the soul — out of the Garden. 

This mortal mind — the mind of Satan — the Absence 
of God, in the soul — as life — turned the soul 
out from God as life. 

For this cause, Christ, not the man Jesus, but the 
Spiritual Ego, who was entirely spiritual, had to be con- 
ceived without sexual passion. But the physical man, 
with his carnal and material mind, made theology to 
appeal to and to please the physical senses of the physical 
man, and cannot understand this spiritual truth. 

"And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your fore- 
skin; and it shall be covenant betwixt me and you. 
And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among 
you, every man child in your generations, he that is born 
in thy house or bought with money of any stranger, which is 
not thy seed; he that is born in thy house, and he that 
is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised, 
and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting 
covenant. And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh 
of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut 
off from his people; he hath broken my covenant." 
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Here God was speaking to Abraham — and Abraham 
was the Father of the House of Israel and Israel repre- 
sents and means the spiritual man whom God created in 
His own image. "I am the God of Abraham, -Isaac and 
Jacob.'' That is, "I am the God of the spiritual man whom 
I created in my own image;" who has returned to the 
Garden of Eden and reflects me as his Father, and who 
has been resurrected from the death sting of the serpent. 
Circumcision here not only represents a sanitary law, but 
a spiritual law; representing the shedding of blood of the 
generative organs, whereby the physical man — "the Adam 
man" is propagated. And the shedding of blood repre- 
sents death ; that is, circumcision here represents the death 
of "the Adam man" and the loss of his power over the 
spiritual man whom God created in His own image. It is 
the power of God's mind restoring the soul to life from the 
death sting of the serpent. 

This spiritual man is a different creation from the 
physical man and knows not the laws of the physical man 
nor his anti-spiritual nature. Israel, the spiritual man 
whom God made in His own image, is absolutely spiritual ; 
and the fleshly man conceived by woman through passion 
partakes of the nature of the fallen angels and is absolutely 
anti-spiritual. "And when the woman saw that the tree 
was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and 
a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit 
thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with 
her, and he did eat, And the eyes of them both were 
opened, and they knew that they were naked ; and they 
sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons." 
Genesis 3: 6-7. Here we have the woman who is repre- 
sented as the first woman of creation, the physical woman, 
yielding to sexual passion and arousing the lust of her 
husband until they gratified their sexual lust and their 
spiritual eyes were opened and they knew the difference 
between the law of the Spirit and the law of the flesh — life 
and death — the difference between the attributes of God 
and the attributes of the Devil who had rebelled against 
God's spiritual kingdom and whose anti-spiritual nature 
is represented in the law of the flesh. And this first woman 
— Eve — and the first man — Adam — were man and wife. 
The fact that they had mated as the opposite sexes of 
the physical creation, did not make the gratification of 



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their lust spiritual. The fleshly creation represents the 
nature of the Fallen Angels who rebelled against God's 
spiritual kingdom, and the gratification of the lust of the 
flesh whereby the physical man is propagated, is contrary 
to the laws of God's spiritual kingdom. The fleshly 
man is of the nature of the Fallen Angels; the spiritual 
man is of the nature of God's spiritual kingdom. If God 
be light, spirit and life and the only reality — light, spirit 
and life in the universe — the Absence of God as the only 
reality — light, spirit and life in the universe must be 
darkness, matter and death, and these all become unreal 
as we come into the presence of God, as reality, spirit 
and life. 

"For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, mur- 
ders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blas- 
phemies." Matt. 15: 19. "Out of the heart," of course, 
is the physical man who is governed according to the anti- 
spiritual laws of the Fallen Angel — sex. "Wherefore, as 
by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; 
and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." 
Romans 5: 12. Here the one man referred to, of course, 
represents the first "Adam man" who was the first material 
man, and represented the anti-spiritual nature of the 
Devil and the Fallen Angels; and in his nature was gov- 
erned by the law of lust; and when he yielded to sexual 
passion, he violated the spiritual law of God's spiritual 
kingdom and physical death by reason of the violation of 
this spiritual law was decreed to all the generations of men 
of the material creation as they are begotten by the law 
of lust and passion. 

"They answered and said unto him, Abraham is 
our father. Jesus saith unto them, "If ye were Abra- 
ham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. 
But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the 
truth, which I have heard of God; this did not Abraham. 
Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, 
we be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even 
God. Jesus said unto them, "If God were your Father, 
ye would love me; for I proceeded forth and came from 
God ; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. Why do 
ye not understand my speech? Even because ye cannot 
hear my word. Ye are of your father, the Devil and the 
lust of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from 



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the beginning, and abode not in the truth because there 
is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh 
of his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it." John 
8: 39-44. Here Jesus represents the children of Abraham 
as God's spiritual children. The man made in God's 
Image, who has been restored to God's Image, who has 
been resurrected. Abraham represents the spiritual man 
whom God created in His own image. The Master, after 
comparing the children of God — God's spiritual creatures 
— to the children of Abraham, He compares the physical 
man, the offspring of Adam, the first material man, who 
was created by lust, as the son of the devil; the devil 
here representing the fallen angels who rebelled against 
God and God's spiritual kingdom. "Ye are of your father 
the devil and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a 
murderer from the beginning and abode not in truth 
because there is not truth in him. When he speaketh a 
lie he speaketh of his own ; for he is a liar and the father of 
it." John 8: 44. Here the Master compares and repre- 
sents the state of the fallen angels to be at enmity with 
God's spiritual kingdom, "a murderer from the begin- 
ning" — and that he rebelled against the truth of God's 
spiritual kingdom and that when he speaketh he speaketh 
a lie and that he speaketh his own for he is a liar and the 
father of liars ; and that the physical man which is created 
by the law of lust is his child and offspring and partakes 
of his nature and is in rebellion against God and God's 
spiritual kingdom. 

This father of liars, who is a fallen spirit, and is in 
rebellion against God's spiritual kingdom, is represented 
in the power of the flesh — the sex of the mortal creation — 
and the material man ; and his evil personality is personi- 
fied in the essence of lust by which the physical man is 
conceived and generated. He is ever present in the power 
of the flesh and the sex and lust senses of the material man 
contending with the spiritual man and at war with the 
spiritual man whom God created in His own image. 
"Now there was a day when the sons of God came to 
present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also 
among them. And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence 
comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, 
"From going to and fro in the earth and walking up 
and down in it. And the Lord said unto Satan, "Hast 



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thou considered my Servant, Job, that there is none like 
him in the' earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that 
feareth God and escheweth evil? Then Satan answered 
the Lord, and said, "Doth Job fear God for naught? 
Hast thou not made a hedge about him, and about his 
house, and about all that he hath on every side? Thou hast 
blessed the works of his hands, and his substance is in- 
creased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, 
and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy 
face. And the Lord said unto Satan, "Behold, all that he 
hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth 
thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of 
the Lord." Job 1: 6 12. Here we have the narrative of 
Job, the spiritual man made in God's image, and Job, 
the fleshly man, representing the power of the devil. The 
affliction of Job, the physical man, represents the power of 
the evil spirit — the fallen angel — called "the Devil," 
as represented in the flesh of the physical man. All the 
punishment afflicted upon Job, the physical man, his 
sufferings and torture, represents the war between the 
fleshly man and the spiritual man. The fleshly man repre- 
sents the power of the fallen angels who rebelled against 
God's spiritual kingdom, and the fleshly man is con- 
stantly at war with the spiritual man who was made in 
God's image. "And the Lord said unto Satan, "Behold, 
all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put 
not forth thine hand," Job 1: 12. Here we see the Lord 
permitted the power of the devil to rule the fleshly man 
and to torture him with pain and suffering, but not to 
touch or injure the spiritual man who was made in God's 
image. The story of Job is a story of the war between the 
spiritual man and the fleshly man, the story of the war 
between the flesh and the spirit; the story of the war 
between the fallen angels who rebelled against God's 
kingdom and God, the Universal Spirit. "As it is written, 
Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." Romans 
9: 13. Here Jacob represents the spiritual man and Esau 
the fleshly man. Jacob is of the House of Israel and the 
House of Israel represents God's spiritual children whom 
He created in His own image. Esau represents the fleshly 
man who is conceived by the power of lust and represents 
and is the personification of the power of the fallen angels 
who rebelled against God's spiritual kingdom. Jacob is 



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the spiritual man— the Ego made in God's image — res- 
tored to God's image — He is man — the real man, who has 
returned to the Garden of Eden. Jacob is the soul resur- 
rected. Esau is the mortal man — sensuality — the mind 
of the serpent. 

From the foundation of the world, the Scriptures teach 
us that God knew His own and ordained them to eternal 
life. His own are His spiritual children created in His 
own image. The Scriptures also teach us that before the 
foundation of the world he knew that man would fall; 
that is, before God created the material universe; He 
knew the spiritual man would yield to the power of the 
lust — and the physical man would be conceived and born 
of woman. The fallen angels rebelled against God's 
spiritual kingdom before the material universe was created 
and the material creation and the fleshly man represents 
the power of the rebellion of the fallen angels who rebelled 
against God's spiritual kingdom. Universal Intelligence, 
knew the fleshly man before the material creation, and his 
power and how he would war against the spiritual man 
made in God's image. "The elect" are God's spiritual 
children, created in His own image, who were, before thy 
foundation of the world, predestined and foreordained 
to eternal life accord ng to the power and degree that thee 
take into their spiritual consciousness, the spiritual life 
and power of the Christ, who is in perfect harmony with 
God's spiritual kingdom and perfect spiritual life. In 
propagation as they become non-sensual they are elected 
to life eternal. The condemned, before the foundation of 
the world, are the children of the flesh who are conceived 
in lust and who cannot know God and God's spiritual 
kingdom and must die and pass away when the material 
creation is no more, and the man. made in God's Image is 
eternally doomed in proportion as he becomes sensual. 
As the spiritual man taketh the power and nature of this 
fleshly man into his spiritual consciousness — he partaketh 
of hell and death. This is election — this is predestination. 

"And the seventy returned again with joy, say- 
ing, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through 
thy name. And he said unto them: I beheld Satan as 
lightning fall from heaven." Luke 1: 7 to 8: 2. Here we 
see the Apostles and the Fathers of the Early Church cast 
out devils in the name of the Christ. Cast out the sex — 



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power of the flesh from the mind — by the power of the 
Spirit. That is, they were in such perfect harmony with 
God's spiritual kingdom and had such perfect control 
over the flesh that they healed and cured the lame and the 
sick — healed the fleshly man who represents the power of 
Satan, who is rebellion against God. All sickness is in 
the mind of the serpent. Job was diseased because of sin 
— sensuality — the mind of the serpent had destroyed his 
mortal body. But the soul within he'd on to God, and 
was delivered from the flesh and come again into the 
presence of God. 

"As they went out, behold, they brought to him a 
dumb man possessed with the devil — and when the devil 
was cast out the dumb spake; and the multitude 
marveled, saying it was never so seen in Israel." Matt. 
9: 32, 33. Here we see the Master cured the infirmities of 
the flesh — the sickness of the physical man — which sick- 
ness and infirmities is but the power of the evil of the angels 
that rebelled against Heaven. Jesus, the Apostles, and 
the Fathers of the Early Church went about healing the 
sick "and casting out devils" — the casting out of devils, 
of course, represents the power of the spiritual man over 
the physical man — the power of good over evil — the mind 
of lust — the power of God over the fallen angels who 
rebelled against His kingdom. 

God is Good, God is Perfect, God is Love, God is 
Light and God is Life. The spiritual creatures who were 
members of His spiritual kingdom and rebelled against 
God and His spiritual universe — and were cast out, of 
course, became the opposite of all of that which God is — 
darkness, evil, the mind of lust, sickness and death — and 
the power of these fallen angels is represented in the 
physical man conceived in passion and lust. 

The human family knows there is something wrong; 
that there is a war going on within the human breast. 
The most benighted heathen and pagan realizes that the 
physical man is at war with something better within 
him — is at war with his spiritual nature — with the 
spiritual man made in God's image, hence he cuts and 
punishes the physical man. He offers up bloody sacrifices; 
he wants to do something to appease the wrath that is 
raging within him between the spiritual and the physical 
man. The enlightened and civilized pagan worships 



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his gods and denies the physical man in an effort 
to appease and satisfy the wrath of the spiritual 
man who is contending against the evil of the 
physical man. The so-called orthodox Christian, with 
his man-made theology, preaches an atonement to the 
physical senses of the material man in an effort to satisfy 
the demands of the spiritual man and to release the spir- 
itual man from bondage to the physical man. Christen- 
dom, with its man-made theology misconceiving the 
physical man for the spiritual man, has deified the physical 
man, made his conception and birth spiritual and divine 
and is preaching that the physical is holy and the child 
of God and will be saved by the power of The Atonement. 
Thus Christendom has confused the spiritual birth with 
the physical birth, the spiritual man with the physical 
man and has made the power of the devil the kingdom of 
heaven. Scholastic theology has confused sex worship 
with Christian worship. It has made the religion of the 
sex and lust senses the religion of the soul, or rather has 
attempted to do so. 

All of the human race realize that there is something 
wrong. The children of men weep and wail with tears, 
first cursing like demons of hell, and then praying like 
angels of heaven. In this confused state they cannot dif- 
ferentiate between the spiritual and the material — be- 
tween heaven and hell — God and the Devil. All of this 
confusion which has caused the human race so many tears 
and so much weeping arose out of and had its origin in 
confounding and confusing the spiritual birth with the 
natural birth — the spiritual man and the natural man. 

The spiritual man God created in His own image 
and likeness, and he is a child of God and a part of God's 
spiritual universe — the physical man is conceived in lust 
and passion and in his fleshly nature represents the power 
of the devil and the fallen angels who rebelled against 
God and God's spiritual kingdom. The spiritual man is 
real, and the physical man is unreal, and when the spirit- 
ual man— the soul — returns to the Garden of Eden, 
the physical will not exist. 

God is Mind, God is Spirit, and the creatures whom 
he created in his spiritual kingdom were spiritual creatures, 
and the fallen angels who rebelled against God's spiritual 
kingdom were spiritual creatures ; but when they rebelled 



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their spiritual natures became evil, and are manifested 
through evil — carnal — thoughts and perverted minds in the 
flesh. These evil thoughts corrupt and disease the physical 
man — and it was the evil thoughts which represented 
the spirits of the fallen angels, that corrupted the 
flesh of the physical man, and that Christ cast out as 
devils. The physical man is filled with iniquity, which is 
the perverted mind and anti-spiritual nature of the fallen 
angels — the carnal mind, lust and passion of the physical 
man. 

"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desper- 
ately wicked; who can know it?" Jeremiah 17: 9. 
"The heart" here referred to represents the life principle 
of the physical man — the sinful nature of his carnal mind 
and the law of lust which is the power of the devil and the 
fallen angels who rebelled against God. It was these evil 
thoughts — this carnal mind — this lustful nature — this 
Satanic power that Christ cast out as devils and restored 
the physical man to health and healed his sickness and 
disease. 

This physical man, charged with the carnal mind 
and the lustful nature of Satanic majesty, which is 
anti-spiritual, is mortal; God is Life and God is Im- 
mortal. And this physical man, who is the product of 
the perverted and anti-spiritual mind of the spirits who 
rebelled against God's spiritual kingdom, partakes of 
sin and death. He is the child of lust and sin and must 
die. 

"Man that is born of woman, is of a few days and 
full of trouble." Here the man spoken of "born of 
woman," of course, represents the Adam man — full of sin 
controlled by the carnal mind and decreed to die. "But 
man dieth and wasteth away; yea, man giveth up the 
ghost, and where is he?" Job. 14: 10. "But his flesh 
upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall 
mourn." Job 14: 22. Here we see the physical man is 
represented as death, and the spiritual man, which 
represents life, shall mourn in his bondage to the 
physical man. The children of men through all 
generations — the spiritual children of God, made 
in God's image — have been crying, weeping and 
mourning and praying to be delivered from the bond- 
age of the power of the angels who rebelled against God's 



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kingdom; which power is represented in the carnal mind 
and the lust of the physical man. The spiritual child of 
God, made in God's image, who yielded to the law of lust 
today and weeps in tears of bitterness and sorrow to- 
morrow, and, realizes that there is something wrong and 
that there is a sinful power eating away his spiritual life, 
but he is unable to explain to his own conscience what the 
power of sin is which is destroying his spiritual life; 
and the theologians with their man-made theology — 
the product of the carnal mind, which made the physical 
birth spiritual — have been unable to enlighten the con- 
science of God's spiritual children. They have not told 
man what is sin and where it is in creation. 

"Man is like vanity — his days are as a shadow that 
passeth away." Psalm 144: 4. 'Then shall the dust re- 
turn to earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto 
God who gave it." Ecclesiastics 12: 7. 'Tor when they 
shall rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given 
in marriage, but are as the angels which are in heaven." 
Mark 12: 25. Here we see that the Scriptures clearly 
differentiate between the physical man and the spiritual 
man; and that the physical man is mortal and sinful and 
within him reigns and rules the carnal mind and the law 
of lust which represents the perverted state of the angels 
who rebelled against God's kingdom, and that the spirit- 
ual man is God's child made in God's image and is im- 
mortal and can never die. The Scriptures here teach that 
the spiritual man neither marries nor is given in marriage, 
but is as the angels of heaven; but that it is the physical 
man who is controlled by the law of the carnal mind and 
lust that marries and is given in marriage and his carnal 
mind being of the devil, and the essence of the mind of 
the fallen spirits, he is filled with disease, sickness, tor- 
tured with pain and sufferings, and finally must die. 
"For he is the child of the father of liars." Jesus declared 
that Spirit is Life and that Spirit is Mind and Love. 
And the soul that is resurrected from the death sting of 
the serpent neither marries or is given in marriage over 
there, being the child of God. 

"Jesus said unto him, "Thou shalt love the Lord 
thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with 
all thy mind." Matt. 22: 27. Here the Master de- 
clared that kingdom of God to be one of Love and of 



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Mind and Spirit and Life. Satan's kingdom is the oppo- 
site — is hatred, malice, matter, sickness and death. 
"Oh, wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from 
the body of this death. " Romans 8: 24. Here Paul refers 
to the sex of the body of the physical man as death and 
cries out from the depths of his soul — "Oh, wretched man 
that I am. Who shall deliver me from the body of this 
death/' To love the Lord thy God with all thy heart 
means to forsake sex, the worship of the sex and lust 
senses, and to worship God as Spirit. 

God's spiritual children, made n His image, have 
been crying out from the day the first man and the first 
woman yielded to the law of lust, "Oh, wretched creatures 
we are, bound in chains and shackles to the power of the 
carnal mind and lust; ruled and governed by the dominion 
of the Devil ; who shall deliver us from this state of bond- 
age of lust and sin into the glorious dominion of God's 
spiritual kingdom of freedom?" Through the ages the 
spiritual man, God's child, had seen with a vision divine 
the coming of the Christ who would deliver all of God's 
spiritual children, who believe in Him, back into the 
glorious kingdom of God's image and God's spiritual king- 
dom. 

"The Adam man" had its origin when God's spiritual 
creatures rebelled against God and God's spiritual king- 
dom. This was the origin and the beginning of sin. 
And it was the beginning of the mortal creation. This was 
the origin and the beginning of suffering and death in the 
physical man. God is Good; God is Pure; God is Perfect; 
God is Light; God is Love; God is Life; and when His spir- 
itual creatures rebelled against His spiritual kingdom they 
became rebels against all of His laws of light, love and 
life, and "the Adam man" and the material creation, 
which represents their nature and their laws of hatred, 
sickness, darkness and death, is mortal and in rebellion 
against God and His kingdom. He is the product of the 
law of lust, ruled and controlled by the devil, the fleshly 
man, and the angels who rebelled against God and God's 
kingdom— against Spirit, Light and Life? 

When we shall cease to sin, to indulge lust in thought, 
mind and act, we shall return to the Image of the Father, 
and have complete power over physical sickness and dis- 
ease, as did Jesus and the Apostles. In the conscious 



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reality of God, the only life and mind, the unreal, the 
mind of the serpent, the senses and matter becomes un- 
real to the soul. The unreal — sin — does not exist in the 
essence of the only reali y and life — God. It exists in 
mind by being out of His presence in thought. 



CHAPTER XVI. 

PHYSICAL DISEASE, SICKNESS AND DEATH. 

The physical man is created by the law of lust; 
and the law of lust is anti-spiritual and contrary to life. 
He only exists in mind and thought in the Absence of God 
as the only life. He is of mortal conception, and in the 
God mind does not exist, and is not real in the mind of 
life — God. Lust is physical diseases, sickness and death. 
The physical man is non-spiritual and has not the ele- 
ments of life in him; naturally he partakes of disease, 
sickness and death. He is conceived in lust and death. 
"So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust; and 
they walked in their own counsels." Psalm 81: 12. "And 
they that, are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the 
affections and lusts." Gal. 5: 24. "For all that is in the 
world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and 
the pride of life (the sex and lust senses) is not of the 
Father, but is of the world" — is not of God — Spirit- 
Life — Reality. "And the world passeth away and the 
lust thereof; but he that doeth the will of God abideth 
forever." The senses and the material being unreal in 
spirit, shall pass away as man comes into the consciousness 
of God as the only life and reality. John 2 : 16, 17. The 
Scripture represents lust as the power of the flesh and anti- 
spiritual. It is the manifestation of the minds of the 
Fallen Angels, who rebelled against God's Kingdom, 
in the fleshly man. And as the Spirit is life, the power of 
lust which is anti-spiritual is disease, sickness and death. 
All of the infirmities, diseases and sickness and suffering 
of the physical man had their origin in the power of lust 
by which he is conceived. Where all is Spirit — all is life. 
Where all is lust — all is death. Where Spirit reigneth 
there is life. Where lust reigneth there is death. The 
human family, the physical man yielding to the law of 
lust from generation to generation, has bequeathed physi- 

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cal weakness, sickness and disease to the children of men — 
to the physical man. All of the diseases, sickness and 
suffering of the human family are due to the law of lust, 
and the power of lust is the mental state of Fallen Angels 
who are out of harmony with God's spiritual kingdom. As 
God is the only reality and life of the universe, the carnal 
mind, which is the mind of the Fallen Beings must be 
unreal and death. All disease and sickness are in the 
outer temple — the sex and lust senses. Death does not 
originate in the inner temple — the soul — but in the flesh. 
Disease and death are on this side of the vail, because all 
this side of the vail is unreal and death. As we pass into 
the Inner Temple of Spirit we go into reality and life 

"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, 
till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou 
taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt 
return." Genesis 3: 19. "Wherefore, as by one man sin 
entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death 
passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." Romans 
5: 12. "And Job spake and said, "Let the day perish 
wherein I was born and the night in which it was said 
there is a man child conceived." Job 3: 2, 3. "What man 
is he that liveth and shall not see death." Psalm 39: 48. 
"As he came forth of his mother's womb naked, shall he 
return to and go as he came and shall take nothing of his 
labor which he may carry away in his hand." Ecclesias- 
tics 5: 15. "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, 
but after this the judgment." Hebrews 9: 27. The 
Scriptures here clearly teach us that the physical man is 
concieved in lust and that the law of lust represents 
death. The law of lust is a mental state, it is anti-spiritual ; 
it is the power of the evil-spirit, or the Devil, whom Jesus 
cast out— evil thoughts. The physical conception and 
birth is the power of the mental state of the angels who 
rebelled against God's Kingdom. The physical man is 
conceived by the power and the laws which are contrary 
to God's spiritual kingdom, and as God is life, this 
mortal man must be conceived by death and he is death. 
There is no harmony between the physical and the spirit- 
ual man; they cannot be reconciled — there is no harmony 
between death and life; they are ever in conflict with each 
other. And as God is reality and life, the Absence of God 
is unreal and death. Death is a negative state. Life is 



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a positive state. God is greater than the Fallen Angels. 
Good is greater than evil— Spirit is greater than matter — 
Life is greater than death — so the spiritual man must 
live — and the physical who is conceived in lust must die. 

By yielding to the law of lust — the mental state 
of the Fallen Angels— the physical man has produced 
disease, sickness and suffering in the flesh, and from gen- 
eration to generation has inherited the diseases and 
physical weakness caused by the fathers yielding to 
the law of lust and the mental state of the power of the 
flesh. All physical life has its origin in the law of lust and 
sexual passion, and likewise all physical death has the 
same origin, because the power that producer the physical 
life is the essence of death and cannot produce life, but 
only death. 

The physical weakness of the human family is due to 
violating spiritual laws and yielding to the law of lust and 
passion. When the physical man yields to the law of lust 
he gives up his physical life. When he reaches the mental 
state wherein the power of lust controls him he is under 
the influence mentally of all that which is anti-spiritual, 
and when he yields physically to his lustful nature he 
surrenders part of the physical life and becomes weaker 
physically and poorer spiritually. It is the power of the 
law of lust which has made the human family physical 
weaklings, tortured with suffering and pain, and from the 
day of Adam, the first physical man who yielded to pas- 
sion and lust, parents have handed down to their chil- 
dren physical weakness, disease, and sickness, as a result 
of indulging the law of lust and passion. 

The law of lust and the power of passion should 
only be yielded to for the purpose of propagating the race, 
and even then under the most and best spiritual conditions 
possible, and when lust and passion are gratified in this 
mental state it is anti-spiritual, and partakes of the nature 
of death. There can be no Life, no Light and no Spirit 
in gratifying the law of lust and passion whereby the 
physical man is conceived. Because the lust of the flesh 
can only exist in mind and thought in the Absence of God 
as the only reality and life of the universe. Where the 
real and life is, the unreal and death cannot be. 

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is in rebellion against God. It is not life, it is only 
death. It is produced by the mental and spiritual nature 
of the angels who rebelled against God — the lust of the 
flesh and physical conception. Hence the lust of the flesh — 
the physical man and the carnal mind — is in the same men- 
tal and spiritual state of the fallen angels who kept not 
their first spiritual state with God and His spiritual 
kingdom; hence the physical man — the lust of the flesh, 
and the carnal mind — is in rebellion against God and can- 
not know spiritual things nor God's spiritual nature. 
Physical sickness, disease and death, therefore, have their 
origin in a mental spiritual state. They represent the men- 
tal and spiritual state of the fallen angels. This mental 
and spiritual state is in rebellion against God and knows 
only lust, crime, disease, physical and selfish power, 
vanity — all of which is the spiritual and mental state of 
the fallen angels and results in physical sickness, disease 
and death. 

God's nature is the opposite of this mental and 
spiritual state of the fallen angels who rebelled against 
God and whose power is represented in the carnal mind 
and the lust of the flesh; hence, Jesus and His Apostles 
restored physical health and life by spiritual power. 
By living in the conscious realization of God as the only 
life, they had power over death. "Then He called His 
twelve disciples together, and gave them power and au- 
thority over all devils, and to cure diseases. And he sent 
them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick." 
The kingdom of God is that state of mind wherein every 
thought of the flesh is cast out from the soul, and man is 
in the image of and in harmony with God. Such a soul 
can cast out the thoughts of the flesh and have power over 
the ills of the flesh. Luke 9 : 1,2. Here, the Master taught 
that spiritual life of the nature of the Father was not only 
spiritual life, but physical life. "The devils" here men- 
tioned were the mental states and conditions of the chil- 
dren of the flesh and the carnal mind — the spiritual nature 
of the fallen angels who rebelled against God's spiritual 
kingdom and whose spiritual state and mental condition 
are spiritual and physical sickness and death. "And he 
sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the 
sick." That is, to teach men the spiritual and mental na- 
ture of God, which is life, and by so doing they cast out 



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devils; the devils cast out were thoughts and mental 
conditions of the nature of the fallen angels who are in 
rebellim. against God and God's laws and his spiritual 
kingdo 

"And it came to pass, that the father of Publius 
lay sick of a fever and bloody flux; to whom Paul en- 
tered in and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed 
him." Acts 28: 8. "Then Peter said, "Silver and gold 
have I none; but such as I have I give thee; in the name 
of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk, and he took 
him by the right hand and lifted him up; and immediately 
his feet and ankle bones received strength. And he, 
leaping up, stood, and walked, and entered with them into 
the temple, walking and leaping, and praising God." 
Acts 3: 6-8. "And there he found, a certain man named 
Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick 
of the palsy; and Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus 
Christ maketh thee whole; arise, and make thy bed. 
And he arose immediately." Acts 9: 33, 24. "And the 
prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall 
raise him up; and if he hath committed sins, they shall 
be forgiven him." James 5: 15. Here we see that dis- 
ease and sickness have their origin in a spiritual and 
mental state. That sickness and sin go hand in hand, 
and that the soul that is in the conscious realization of 
God as the only reality and life has power over all sin 
and all disease and as all sin is within the sex, of the mortal 
creation, the soul must overcome the thoughts and desires 
of the lust of the flesh to heal the sick. That it is a spiritual 
and mental condition of the carnal mind and flesh, which 
is the spiritual state of the fallen angels, that produces 
physical sickness and finally death. And that by spiritual 
power, a mental state which is in harmony with God's 
nature, you can cast out the evil thoughts and the lustful 
nature which partake of the spiritual nature of the fallen 
angels, and not only restore spiritual life, but physical 
health. This is what Jesus and the Apostles did. It was 
by this spiritual state and power, which excluded the men- 
tal and spiritual nature of the fallen angels, who are in 
rebellion against God, that they healed the sick, restored 
sight to the blind, made the lame walk, the deaf to hear, 
and raised the dead. When the Church lost its spiritual 
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spiritual laws, and spiritual nature, and began to worship 
God through the physical senses and by the carnal mind, 
it lost its power to heal. The Elders and Disciples could 
no longer heal the sick, restore sight to the blind and make 
the deaf hear, because their minds were in the mental 
and spiritual state of the fallen angels who are in rebellion 
against God. They could not cast out devils, for their 
own mental and spiritual natures were of the same spiritual 
nature as the devil— the spiritual nature of the fallen 
angels. This mental stateof the physical man which is of the 
spiritual nature of the fallen angels, is conceived in lust 
and fleshly passion and when the Church spiritualized 
lust and sexual passion and the physical birth, the Dis- 
ciples partook of the mental and spiritual nature of the 
lust of the flesh and the carnal mind, and the Church 
and those who called themselves Christians lost their spir- 
itual power and the Church became a fleshly institution 
instead of a spiritual institution. It was composed of 
men and women, who worshipped the sex senses instead 
of the Spirit — the mortal and not the immortal. 

But Jesus banished this mental state and spiritual 
nature of the fallen angels, who are in rebellion against 
God and His kingdom, by triumphing over every law of 
the flesh and lust. When He cast out devils — He simply 
restored the children of God to their natural spiritual state 
and in perfect harmony with God's spiritual law and God's 
spiritual nature. He did not leave one element of the men- 
tal and spiritual nature in the minds of God's children 
which partook of the spiritual nature of the fallen 
angels. He cast out all the power of the sex senses of 
the mortal creation. 

''Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead 
dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. 
For in that he died, he died unto sin once; but in that he 
liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also 
yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God 
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin, therefore, 
reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the 
lusts thereof." Romans 6: 9-12. "Forasmuch then as 
the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also 
himself likewise took part of the same; that through 
death he might destroy him that had the power of death, 
that is, the devil." Hebrews 2: 14, 15. "I am he that 



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liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive forever 
more. Amen. And have the keys of hell and of death." 
Revelation 1:18. Here we see that the Scriptures repre- 
sent the devil to be the mental and spiritual state of the 
angels who kept not their first state in God's spiritual 
kingdom, but rebelled against God and His kingdom; 
and that their spiritual and mental state and nature are 
represented in the nature and the power of sexual passion, 
lust and the carnal mind of the physical man; and that it is 
this nature and power which produce diseases, sickness 
and death in the physical man. That sin is a spiritual 
and mental state — the spiritual nature of the fallen angels 
and in harmony with the lust of the flesh; and that it is 
this power which originated sin and death, and has during 
the generation of the physical man produced sickness, 
suffering, disease and physical death in the sex and lust 
senses of the material man. It was this fleshly power and 
lust which was crucified on the Cross. Death — the ser- 
pent was crucified on the cross — not life — the Christ. 
It was this mental and spiritual nature of the fallen angels, 
which produces sickness and disease in the material man, 
that Jesus and the Apostles cast out as devils. If God's 
children made in His own image would remain in harmony 
with God's spiritual nature, the spiritual nature of the 
fallen angels and lust of the flesh could not enter their 
mental state nor their spiritual consciousness and they 
could triumph over physical sickness and disease and the 
suffering and the pain of the material man. 

"I am he that liveth and was dead; behold, I am 
alive forevermore. Amen. I have the keys of hell and 
of death." Jesus here declared that He was dead to the 
physical man, the lust of the flesh and the carnal mind, and 
alive and in full fellowship with God's spiritual kingdom; 
that He had triumphed over the rebellious nature of the 
fallen angels, the carnal mind, the lust of the flesh and 
physical death and that He is alive spiritually forevermore. 
We as God's spiritual creatures can partake of this spir- 
itual nature and spiritual life of the Christ and thereby 
triumph over the lust of the flesh, the carnal mind and 
mental and spiritual nature of the fallen angels who are in 
rebellion against God's kingdom, and in so doing, we 
can every moment be casting out devils from our own men- 
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death, the power over the anti-spiritual nature of the 
fallen angels who rebelled against God's kingdom and 
whose rebellious and anti-spiritual nature is represented 
in the lust of the flesh and the carnal mind. He can for- 
ever lock the doors against this power of hell and death — 
the lust of the flesh and the carnal mind — and keep it 
from entering our spiritual consciousness if we will only 
enter into His spiritual life and light. As He liveth, we 
shall live, if we will partake of His spiritual nature. Life 
or death is a spiritual and mental state. The state of the 
soul. As God is real and life, sickness and disease are un- 
real and death, there is no death in the reality of God as 
life. Sin, disease and death are unreal. They can only 
exist where God as reality and life does not exist in mind, 
and thought. The soul is kept from the realization of 
God as all and the only life by the consciousness of the 
sex and lust senses of the flesh. All that is unreal — sick- 
ness and death are in the serpent. 



CHAPTER XVII. 

ISRAEL. 

The Jew as a race has a spiritual meaning. They are 
a spiritual truth. Their original name as a race was 
Hebrew, which means to come out from — the soul com- 
ing out from the senses to the spirit, Israel, which means 
"the spiritual man and one who prevaileth with God." 
The Jew or Israel means the soul that has come out from 
the senses of the flesh and has prevailed with God and 
returned to the Garden of Eden — the Image of God — 
the soul that has overcome the sting of the serpent. Israel 
means the spiritual man, who is opposed to the physical 
man in his mental and Spiritual nature. "And the Lord 
said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, 
it is a stiff-necked people; now, therefore, let me alone, 
that my wrath may wax against them, and that I may 
consume them; and I will make thee a great nation. 
And Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, Lord, 
why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which 
thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with 
great power, and with a mighty hand? . . . Remem- 
ber, Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom 
thou swearest by thine own self, and saith unto them, I 
will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this 
land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and 
they shall inherit it forever." Exodus 32: 9-13. Here, 
God was provoked with the Children of Israel, who repre- 
sented His spiritual children. They were worshiping 
idols — the sex senses — just as God's children, his spiritual 
creatures yield to the power of the flesh, they worship the 
god of flesh. The Children of Israel represent God's 
spiritual children— the spiritual man — and their bond- 
age in Egypt and slavery to the Pharaohs represent the 
bondage of the spiritual man to the physical man and the 
slavery of the spiritual man whom God created in His 

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image, bound to the lust of the flesh — the sex and lust 
senses. God here was delivering the Children of Israel 
from bondage to the Pharaohs of Egypt just as He delivers 
the spiritual man from bondage to the power of the flesh 
by the power of the Spirit, and yet the Children of Israel 
wanted to erect golden images and physical gods — bulls 
that typed the Egyptian sensual worship — that they 
might worship through their physical senses, just as the 
spiritual man yields daily to the power <3f the flesh and 
worships a physical god — the sex senses — through the 
physical senses of the flesh. 

"For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, 
and will smite all the first born in the land of Egypt, 
both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt — 
the lust and sex senses — I will execute judgment; I am 
the Lord." Exodus 12: 12. Here the Pharaohs and the 
Egyptians represent the fleshly man with his carnal mind 
and lustful nature and they had their gods — sensuality — 
the sex and lust senses. The physical man has his gods 
of selfishness, lust, vanity, and greed and everything that 
the carnal mind desires, he serves and worships as his 
god; and it is these gods that the God of Israel declared 
that He would destroy and demanded of the Children of 
Israel, as He always demands of His spiritual children, 
that they worship not these gods of the flesh, but worship 
Him the God of Spirit. "For the Lord will pass through 
to smite the Egyptians; and when He seeth the blood 
upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will 
pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to 
come in unto your houses to smite you. And ye shall 
observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy 
sons forever." Exodus 12: 23, 24. Here the Children 
of Israel were told to place blood on the two sides of the 
post as a sign that they were the Children of Israel, 
of the Spirit — and not children of the flesh — worshiping 
idols — the sex and lust senses. This was the institution 
of the passover, and wherever this blood was found, the 
Lord would leave the Children of Israel harmless. Here, 
the Lord promised to pass over the houses of the Children 
of Israel in Egypt and to destroy the Egyptians and to let 
the Children of Israel go free. The Children of Israel, 
here represent God's spiritual children made in His 
image — the spiritual man. The Egyptians represent 



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the fleshly man with his lustful nature and carnal mind. 
The blood here represents the death of the physical man. 
Blood is the life of the physical man. The spiritual man 
knoweth not flesh and blood. The destruction here 
represents God's wrath against the fleshly man; and the 
passing over of the houses of the Children of Israel and 
leaving them harmless, represents God's love and pro- 
tection for His spiritual children whom He made in His 
image — that crucify the serpent of the flesh. 

"And God spake all these words, saying, I am the 
Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land 
of Egypt, out of the house of bondage — and from 
the sensual. Thou shalt have no other gods before me — 
the sex and lust senses. Thou shalt not make unto thee 
any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in 
heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is 
in the water under the earth; thou shalt not bow down 
thyself to them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God, 
am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon 
the children unto the third and fourth generation of them 
that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of 
them that love me, and keep my commandments." 
Exodus 20: 1-6. Here God had delivered the Children of 
Israel out of bondage and slavery to the Egyptians, had 
freed them from the sensual, just as He is delivering daily 
His spiritual children whom He made in His image out 
of bondage and slavery to the fleshly man and his carnal 
mind and lustful nature. And He gave them these 
commandments that they should have no other gods — 
the lust of the flesh — before them — that is, they should 
not worship the gods of the flesh — the sex and lust senses 
— but Him, the God and the Creator of Spirits just as He 
is commanding daily His spiritual children made in His 
image, not to worship the gods of the flesh — the sex and 
lust senses— selfishness, vanity, lust and greed, all of which 
came out of the sex and lust senses of the physical man 
and represent the spiritual and mental nature of the fallen 
angels who are in rebellion against God, but to exclude 
these thoughts from their spiritual consciousness and to 
worship Him the God of Spirits. 

Yet the Children of Israel would worship images 
and idols, gods of the physical senses, for which God 
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children just as He demands of every spiritual child whom 
He created in His own image that He be worshiped as the 
God of Spirit and not the god of the flesh. 

The Passover was symbolic in its nature — it repre- 
sented the shedding of blood upon the Cross when the 
Jesus would be crucified — that is, when the fleshly man 
should be crucified and lose his power over the spiritual 
man; and as God passed over the Children of Israel 
and their houses, wherever the blood was placed upon 
the posts indicating the death of the physical man, so he 
passes over His spiritual children without harm wherever 
the physical man has been crucified and lost his power over 
the spiritual man. It is the physical man that is at en- 
mity with God and whom God punishes and will destroy. 
The spiritual man whom He made in His own image He 
loves and will protect and pass over without injury when 
the spiritual man has denied the physical man and cruci- 
fies the physical man — the lust of the flesh. ''And' the 
Lord said unto Moses, "When thou goest to return into 
Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, 
which I have put in thine hand; but Twill harden his 
heart, that he shall not let the people go. And thou shalt 
say unto Pharaoh, "Thus sayeth the Lord, Israel is my 
son, even my first born." Exodus 4: 21, 22. Here the 
Pharaohs and the Egyptians represent the fleshly man, 
who, with his carnal mind, is at enmity with God and has 
no fellowship with Israel the spiritual man, that is, the 
man whom He made in His own spiritual image. The 
flesh is ever at war with the Spirit and the fleshly man is 
every trying to enslave the spiritual man, but God will 
deliver His spiritual children from bondage to the fleshly 
man if they will only crucify the lust of the flesh. For 
forty years the Children of Israel wandered in the wilder- 
ness; representing the spiritual man lost spiritually and 
wandering in the wilderness of the power of the flesh, 
yet God guided them in all of their wanderings and fed 
them on the manna of heaven. So He will guide His 
spiritual children wandering in the wilderness of the 
flesh, and feed them spiritually on the manna of the Spirit, 
if His spiritual children will only crucify the lust of the 
flesh and live in harmony with God's spiritual laws. 
Cease from idoltary — -the worshiping of the lust and sex 
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'This is he, that was in the church in the wilder- 
ness with the angel which spake to him in Mt. Sinai, and 
with our fathers; who received the lively oracles to give 
unto us/' Acts 7: 38. Here we see that the God of Abra- 
ham — the God of Isaac — and the God of all spiritual crea- 
tion was with His spiritual children in the wilderness and 
that His Church is an invisible spiritual institution — 
the spiritual consciousness and spiritual light and life 
of His spiritual creatures. The Church — the spiritual life 
of God's spiritual children — existed before the material 
cration. For in God was light and life from all eternity 
and His spiritual children are made in His image. The 
physical institution, which man calls church, is simply the 
shadow of the reality which exists in the light and life of 
God — and the Children of Israel represent God's spiritual 
creatures whom He created in His own image in contra- 
distinction to the physical man who partakes of the nature 
of the spiritual life of the fallen angel and who rebelled 
against God's spiritual kingdom. 

But the Children of Israel yielded to the fleshly man — 
sex worship — in their wandering from Egypt to Canaan, 
just as His spiritual creatures daily yield to the fleshly 
nature of the physical man, and worship idols — the sex 
and lust senses — for all greed, avarice, selfishness and 
vanity of the flesh comes out of the sex and lust senses. 
"Therefore he lifted up his hand against them to over- 
throw them in the wilderness." Psalm 126: 26. Daily, 
His spiritual creatures are indulging in the lust of the flesh 
and taking into their spiritual consciousness the lust of the 
flesh and the carnal mind and thus provoke God's spirit- 
ual nature and become out of harmony with God's spir- 
itual laws and His spiritual kingdom. Yet He remem- 
bereth His spiritual creatures and redeemeth them from 
the power of the flesh — idolatry. "For he remembered 
his holy promise, and Abraham, his servant. And he 
brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with 
gladness." Psalm 105: 42, 43. Notwithstanding the 
Children of Israel, who represent God's spiritual children 
made in His own image, yielded to the power of the flesh 
and worshiped images and idols through the senses of the 
physical man, yet God remembered His promise to Abra- 
ham. So God remembers His spiritual children whom He 
created in His own image; and notwithstanding they 



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yield to the lust of the fleshly man and the carnal mind, 
and worship idols — the sex and lust senses — yet He 
guides and protects His spiritual children whom He made 
in His own image. 

But He punished the Children of Israel for yield- 
ing to the lust of the physical man, for worshiping the 
idols and images — bulls — the sex and lust senses — and He 
daily punishes His children whom He made in His image 
for yielding to lust and the carnal mind, by excluding 
from their spiritual consciousness spiritual light and spirit- 
ual life. "Now these things were our examples to the 
extent that we should not lust after evil things as they 
also lusted." We should forsake sex worship and worship 
God as Spirit. Corinthians 1: 10-6. 

Here the Apostle Paul refers to the Children of Israel 
as representing God's spiritual children — and their 
yielding to the power of the flesh and worshiping of images 
and idols — bulls — sensuality. Paul declared that we, the 
spiritual children created in God's own image, should not 
lust after the things of the physical man, for in so doing 
the spiritual man is wandering in spiritual darkness just 
as the Children of Israel wandered in the wilderness wor- 
shiping images and idols — the sex of the mortal creation. 
The Jew is the representative of the spiritual man and his 
bondage and captivity and deliverance from captivity 
represents the spiritual man — his bondage to the flesh 
and slavery to the carnal mind and the deliverance of the 
spiritual man from the power of the physical man. "And 
when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, "Ye men 
of Israel, why marvel ye at this'? Or, why look ye so 
earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness 
we had made this man to walk ? The God of Abraham, of 
Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified 
His Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied Him 
in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let 
him go." Acts 3: 12, 13. Here Peter declares that the 
God of all spiritual creation, the Father of all the light 
and life, glorified His Son, the Christ, when the fleshly 
man was crucified upon the cross — that is, He glorified 
His spiritual kingdom and His spiritual creation that He 
made in His image, when the fleshly man was crucified 
upon the Cross. When the fleshly man died the spiritual 
man lived. When the fleshly man was destroyed the 



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spiritual man triumphed. Israel is God's spiritual chil- 
dren whom He made in His own image and the fleshly man 
conceived by woman died on the Cross. As the fleshly 
man dieth daily, the spiritual man liveth and groweth in 
spiritual consciousness, light and life. As Egypt and the 
people who held Israel in bondage lost their power, Israel 
became free and walked in the light of liberty; as the 
fleshly man with his lust and carnal mind dies, the spirit- 
ual man with light and life liveth and is made free from 
sin and death. 

The Jews were looking for a national king — for 
a king who would rule them as a nation. They never 
conceived that they were the representatives of God's 
spiritual children. They were looking for a fleshly king 
to rule the fleshly man. It was this conception — or, rather 
misconception — of the coming of the Christ that the 
Prophets cried out against. The power of the Spirit — 
God's spiritual power — flowed like a mighty ocean into 
the hearts of the Prophets and with a spiritual vision they 
saw the coming of the Prince of Peace, the King of the 
spiritual man — and told it in visions to the spiritual mind 
of the Jews; but their fleshly man, the physical man with 
his carnal mind — with his soul blinded by the sex and lust 
senses of the flesh — could not understand the Prophets. 
All the sacrifices of the high priests and of which Aaron was 
the first, were simply a shadow of the reality of that which 
was to come — the High Priest, the Christ, and the Sacri- 
fice and the Crucification of the fleshly man on the Cross. 

The Jews were constantly at war with the surrounding 
nations and were frequently being captured by the nations 
all about them. This is symbolic. The wars between the 
Jews and the surrounding nations represent the continuous 
war going on between the spiritual and the physical man 
and the captivity of the spiritual man by the power of 
lust of the physical man. 

Yet the Jews were God's chosen people — just as 
His spiritual creation, whom He made in His spiritual 
image is His spiritual children. "But he answered and said 
"I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the House of 
Israel." Matthew 15: 24. Here Jesus represents Israel 
as the spiritual man whom God created in His own image, 
lost in bondage and slavery to the fleshly man, born of 
woman, and declares He is only sent to the spiritual man 



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whom God created in His own image, and not to the fleshly 
man whose lust and carnal mind is anti-spiritual and in 
rebellion against God. 

Jesus wept when He realized that the Jew did not fully 
realize that He, the Christ, was sent to the spiritual man, 
and not to the physical man. "Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 
thou that killest the Prophets, and stoneth them which 
are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy 
children together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her 
wings, and ye would not!" Matt. 23: 37. He wept over 
Jerusalem — the city of soul purity — when he saw the 
man made in God's Image worshiping in Babylon — the 
city of the sex and lust senses. 

Here Jesus declares how He would and will gather 
His spiritual children under His protecting wings if they 
will not yield to the fleshly man and the lust of the carnal 
mind, but remain in a state of spiritual consciousness in 
harmony with Him and His Father's spiritual kingdom. 

"Jerusalem" means vision — spiritual vision — the 
vision of the soul — the City of Spirit and Soul purity — yet 
Israel yielded to the fleshly man and the carnal nature and 
power of lust until God said He would destroy Jerusalem, 
destroy the Jews' spiritual vision. He destroys the spir- 
itual man's spiritual vision when he yields to the law of 
the flesh — just as He told Adam, the first physical man 
who yielded to the power of lust, he should return to dust. 
Jesus said there should not be one stone left upon another 
of Jerusalem and that saying has literally become true. 
Jerusalem, which God's chosen children converted into a 
material worship, has been destroyed. When the spirit- 
ual man attempts to worship God through the physical 
senses and the carnal mind of the physical man, he loses 
his spiritual vision, for the physical man is out of harmony 
with God, cannot know God and must die. But the New 
Jerusalem, which represents the City of Spiritual Light 
and Life, is told to us in Revelation. The fleshly man, with 
his carnal mind and power of lust, cannot enter its gates, 
cannot enter the vision of the spiritual man. The New 
Jerusalem represents the state of the spiritual man re- 
deemed from the power of the fleshly man. It is the 
City of Spirit where the soul thinks only God's thoughts, 
the mind of the serpent — the sensual cannot enter there. 
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spiritual children made in His own image live spiritually 
forever. 

"And a superscription also was written over him in 
letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, "This is the King of 
the Jews." St. Luke 23: 38. This superscription written 
over Jesus on the Corss was the sarcasm and ridicule of 
the carnal mind of the physical man, and yet unknowingly 
they wrote the truth of all ages. They had looked for a 
physical king to rule them as a nation in the flesh, and 
Jesus had been crucified by the fleshly man in his fleshly 
nature because He claimed to be the Son of God. But He 
was the King of the Jews — that is, the spiritual king of 
the spiritual man — whom God made in His image and 
whom the Jew as a race was symbolical of and represented. 
He was the King of the spiritual man and the Jew repre- 
sents the spiritual man made in God's image. 

"And Melchizedek — King of Salem — brought forth 
bread and wine and he was the priest of the most high 
God." Genesis 14: 18. "And the Lord has sworn, and 
will not repent, "Thou are a priest forever after the order 
of Melchizedek." Psalm 110: 4. "And being made per- 
fect, He became the Author of eternal salvation unto all 
them that obey him; called of God a High Priest after the 
order of Melchizedek." Hebrews 5: 9, 10. "And he saith 
also in another place, "Thou art a priest forever after 
the order of Melchizedek." Hebrews 5: 6. "Whither 
the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made a High 
Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek." Hebrews 
6: 20. "For this Melchizedek, King of Salem, priest of 
the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the 
slughter of the kings, and blessed him; to whom also 
Abraham gave a tenth part of all ; first being by interpreta- 
tion King of righteousness, and after that also King of 
Salem, which is King of Peace; without father, without 
mother, without descent, having neither beginning of 
days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; 
abideth a priest continually." Hebrews 7: 1-3. Here we 
see Melchizedek was the forerunner of Christ and repre- 
sented perfect Spirit and the spiritual man as freed from 
the lust of the physical man. He had neither father nor 
mother nor descent; that is, He was not conceived by the 
power of lust of the physical man, but was Spirit mani- 
fested in the flesh by the power of the Spirit. That He 



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had neither the beginning of days nor the end of life, 
that is, being Spirit and not flesh, He was eternal in His 
nature. And so is all Spirit and Life — eternally in God's 
mind. All Spirit is eternal and the spiritual kingdom is 
eternal. The priesthood of the Jews was the symbol 
and sign of the spiritual man and his spiritual power 
— not that their formalities had any virtue in themselves, 
and not that they as men were any better than any other 
men, but that the formalities that they underwent and 
the sacrifices that they offered up were symbolic of the 
death of the physical man, and the spiritual life of the 
spiritual man. Melchizedek being manifested in the 
flesh by the power of the Spirit and being spiritual and 
a spiritual individuality, was free from the lust of the 
physical man and the carnal mind by which the physical 
man is conceived and therefore spiritually was a perfect 
Forerunner of the Christ who was conceived by the power 
of the Spirit and without human passion. 

This is what God meant when He said that the seed 
of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob should be as the stars of the 
heaven and the sands of the sea and should be scattered 
among all the nations of the earth — that is, the Jews, as 
the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, should 
type and be the symbol of God's spiritual children whom 
He created in His own image and that they should be 
scattered wherever the fleshly man is to be found; and 
that Melchizedek manifested in the flesh, without human 
passion, was the Forerunner of the Christ, who was con- 
ceived by the power of the Spirit and without fleshly lust, 
and is spiritually the High Priest of God's spiritual chil- 
dren. All that return to the Garden of Eden, to the 
Image of God, is the real and true Jew. All that have the 
death sting of the serpent removed from the soul are Jews 
in fact. 

The Jews holding together through all the ages as a 
race and retaining their identity represents the spiritual 
man identity, separate and distinct from the fleshly man. 
The Jews declining and refusing to intermarry with other 
races, represents that the spiritual man should not unite 
with and yield to the fleshly man. The Jews' denial of the 
Christ, represents the spiritual man denying the power of 
the Spirit and yielding to the flesh ; and His persecutions 
represent the fleshly man with his lustful nature and 



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carnal mind persecuting the spiritual man. For this is 
the word of promise, "At this time I will come and Sarah 
shall have a son. And not only this; but when Rebecca 
also had conceived by one, even by our father of Isaac;" 
(for the children being not yet born, neither having 
done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according 
to election might stand, not of works, but of him that 
calleth;) it was said unto her, "The elder shall serve the 
younger; as it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau 
have I hated." Roamns 9: 8-12. Jacob here represents 
the spiritual man and Esau the fleshly man; and it is 
Jacob, the spiritual man, whom God created in His own 
image, whom He elected and chose before the foundation 
of the world; and it is Esau, the fleshly man conceived 
of lust and born of woman, whom God knew before the 
foundation of the world, and before the material creation, 
who partakes of the spiritual nature of the angels who re- 
belled against God and His kingdom, that God condemned 
to death before the physical creation. God said He knew 
he would fall; that is, he would yields to lust and be con- 
ceived by the passion of the flesh. This is the election 
theologians with their physical and carnal minds have been 
disputing over through all the ages. God elected to life the 
spiritual man whom He created in His own image, if he 
will only avail himself of the atoning power of the Christ. 
And condemned to death before the foundation of the 
world and the material creation, the physical man who was 
conceived in lust. 

"I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — the 
God of Israel — the God of the spiritual man whom I 
made in My own image saith the Lord, and not of the 
fleshly man. It is this spiritual man that the Jew as a race 
represents. That is what Jesus meant when the Pharisees 
and the Scribes came to Him and asked, When the woman 
had been married to seven different husbands, whose 
wife would she be in the other world, and He said unto 
them. "My Father is the Father of Abraham, Isaac and 
and Jacob," that is the Father Of the spiritual man, who 
has been resurrected to life from the death sting of the 
serpent. "In this kingdom they neither marry nor are 
given in marriage." And when he said, again "for this 
cause shall a man leave his father and his mother and 
cleave unto his wife and their flesh shall be one," He meant 



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to draw the distinction between the spiritual man and the 
fleshly man and to declare the truth that the spiritual man 
is of God and made in God's image; and that marriage 
is a human institution and that the physical man is con- 
ceived in lust and is anti-spiritual in his nature, and man 
cleaves unto the woman on account of sin — sensuality. 

By revelation the Jew was given the spiritual law 
to govern the spiritual man and the physical law to govern 
the physical man. The Jew had no hospitals — no jails 
and no asylums, because by revelation, he was taught to 
subject the lust of physical man to the spiritual man, and 
to spiritual life. 

But man-made theology has adulterated the Chris- 
tian system with paganism and made it a religion for the 
physical senses and the carnal mind and the lust of the 
fleshly man. And for violating the laws of God and sub- 
jecting the spiritual man to the physical man and his lust 
and carnal mind, Christendom is composed of people 
who are physical wrecks, mental imbeciles, and criminals, 
handed down from generation to generation; until the 
generation living is the subject of the crimes, and lust of 
generations for centuries. 

Oh! that the spiritual man could see and understand 
this truth, that Christendom might return to the God of 
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob— to the God of Israel— the 
spiritual man, and worship God, a Spirit by the spiritual 
senses of the spiritual man and subject the lust of the carnal 
mind of the physical man to the spiritual man and restore 
the human race to a state of spiritual happiness — to a 
state of spiritual consciousness in harmony with the livinS 
God and abolish physical sickness — mental imbecility — 
and crime from the human race. 

When we become Jews in fact — overcome the lust of 
the flesh — and remove the lust sting of the serpent from 
the soul — we will return to the Garden of Eden, and will 
be the seed of Abraham in truth. The real and true seed 
of Abraham have full power over sin and death. Israel 
is the soul that has overcome the lust of the flesh and has 
been resurrected to life — Restored to the Spiritual Image 
of God. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 
THE PRIESTHOOD. 

We have seen that Aaron was the first High Priest 
of the Jews and that Melchizedek was a priest, the Fore- 
runner of the Christ, without father and without mother 
and without descent; that he was Spirit manifested in the 
flesh; without carnal knowledge and laws. The priests 
of the Jews were taken from the Tribe of Levi. And their 
duty was to offer up sacrifices. Sacrifices indicated the 
coming of the Christ and His crucifixion upon the Cross. 
All nations — heathen and pagan — have had their priest- 
hood who offered up sacrifices. It is instinct within the 
human heart that there is something spiritual within man 
which is in rebellion against the physical man and he wants 
to crucify and kill the physical man in order to free the 
spiritual man who is in bondage to the physical man. By 
instinct therefore and without revelation, the pagans of 
all ages and all races have had their priesthood to offer 
up sacrifices. Sacrifice means "the shedding of blood" — 
and the shedding of blood means the death of the physical 
man. The sacrifices offered by the priesthood of the 
Jews were symbolical of the crucifixion of the physical 
man upon the cross — The death of the serpent — the sex — 
and lust senses, and the removing of the mind of the ser- 
pent from the mind of the soul. 

God said unto the Jews: "I will make thee a priest- 
hood forever of the living GodV' This has been mis- 
construed into a physical priesthood and physical cere- 
monies that claim to have saving virtue for the spiritual man 
— the soul. God did not mean that He would make the physi- 
cal man a priesthood forever and that there was saving 
pov/er in the ceremonies and sacrifices offered up by the 
priests — but He meant to say that the priesthood repre- 
sented the spiritual man and as he crucifies the lust of 
flesh and the carnal mind of the physical man he becomes 

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spiritually a priest in God's kingdom — the kingdom of 
God — the priesthood — is within you, said the Master. 
The sacrifices offered up by the priest represented the 
death of the physical man; the spiritual man, who is life, 
triumphing over the physical man, who is death. God 
said that He entered into a covenant with the priesthood 
forever. In the nature of things no man or class of men, 
physically, could live forever. It was the spiritual man 
that liveth forever whom God was addressing and whom 
He declared that He entered into covenant with as a 
priesthood; i. e., the priesthood of eternal life. 

"To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed 
indeed of men, but chosen of God and precious, ye also, 
as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy 
priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to 
God by Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 2: 4-5). "And from Jesus 
Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten 
of the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth. 
Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in 
his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto 
God and His Father; to Him be glory and dominion 
forever and ever. Amen" (Rev. 1: 5-6). "And they 
sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the 
book, and open the seal thereof; thou wast slain, and 
hath redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kin- 
dred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and has made 
us unto our God, kings and priests; and we shall reign 
on the earth" (Rev. 5: 9-11). 

Here we see that the priesthood is a spiritual state 
and every man is a priest who crucifieth the power of 
the flesh and enters into spiritual harmony and spir- 
itual life with God. Every man is a real priest who has 
overcome the lust of the flesh and had the serpent's sting 
of death removed from the soul. That is, it is the spiritual 
man whom God made in His own image and who denies 
the lust of the flesh, the carnal mind and the power of the 
physical man and liveth in spiritual harmony with God 
and God's spiritual kingdom, who is the priest. Melchi- 
zedek being perfect Spirit manifest in the flesh without the 
lust of the flesh was the Forerunner of the Christ as the 
Chief Priest of the spiritual kingdom. Aaron was the 
first High Priest and all the sacrifices offered up by him 
and the priesthood and the tribe of Levi simply repre- 



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sented that only Christ, the Chief of Priests, could enter 
absolutely into the spiritual life and light of God's spirit- 
ual kingdom. All of the offerings and sacrifices of the 
priests were only symbolical and passed away when the 
Chief Priest, the Christ in his fleshly nature, was offered up 
and sacrificed upon the Cross. By the sacrifice of the 
fleshly man of the Christ — Jesus the man — all of God's 
children whom He made in the image of the Christ, can 
become priests in His spiritual kingdom by entering into a 
state of spiritual consciousness in harmony with God's 
spiritual Kingdom — Light and Life. Christ, His Son, 
in His spiritual nature, was the Chief of Priests, i. e., 
Perfect Spirit, Light and Life. All of God's children made 
in His image by denying the fleshly man and partaking of 
the spiritual life of the Chief Priest — the Christ — and of 
God and His spiritual kingdom, can become spiritual 
priests in God's kingdom. It was this spiritual man whom 
God entered into a covenant with that He would make a 
priest forever — for only Spirit is eternal. It was not the 
fleshly man with the seeds of death within him, conceived 
in passion, and born of woman and who is at enmity with 
God and His spiritual kingdom or any class of men or sect 
or tribe that God entered into a covenant with to make 
priests forever. There are two classes of Priests — the 
Pagan Priest — he who worships the sex and lust senses 
and lives for the carnal is a pagan priest. He who lives 
for the spiritual and crucifies the serpent within him and 
comes into a consciousness of God is a spiritual — a Chris- 
tianpriest. 

The poor physical man in lust conceived and born 
of woman and all of his offerings and sacrifices must soon 
pass away and never know God's kingdom or spiritual 
life and light. But the spiritual man whom God created 
in His own image, who denies the flesh, the lust of the 
physical man, and partakes of spiritual life and comes 
into a state of spiritual consciousness through the cruci- 
fication and the death of the physical nature of the man 
Jesus on the Cross, who was as the Christ, the Chief 
Priest in God's spiritual kingdom, will enter into a state 
of spiritual life and will become a Priest forever in God's 
spiritual kingdom. 

Christ as such Chief Priest surrendered unto death 
as to the fleshly man and survived unto life as to the 



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spiritual man. The Natural birth is unholy and it was 
the sacrifice for the sins of the carnal mind that Christ 
as the Chief Priest suffered in His fleshly nature on the 
cross. "And the Lord spake unto Moses saying, Speak 
unto the children of Israel saying: If a woman have con- 
ceived seed and born a man child; then she shall be un- 
clean seven days ; according to the days of separation for 
her infirmity shall she be unclean. And in the eight day, 
the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcized. And she shall 
then continue in the blood of her purifying three and 
thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing nor come 
unto the sanctuary until the days of her purifying be 
fulfilled. But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be 
unclean two weeks as in her separation, and she shall con- 
tinue in the blood of her purifying for three score and six 
days. And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled 
for a son or daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first 
year for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or 
turtle dove for a sin offering unto the door of the tabernacle 
of the congregation, unto the priest — who shall offer it 
up before the Lord and make an atonement for her and 
she shall be clean from the issue of her blood. This is the 
law for her that hath born a male or a female. And if she 
be not able to bring the lamb, then she shall bring two 
turtle doves or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt 
offering and the other for the sin offering; and the priest 
shall make atonement for her and she shall be clean" 
(Lev. 12: 1-9.) Here we see the conception of the physical 
man is contrary to God's spiritual laws and His spiritual 
kingdom, that man is conceived in sin, and that this was 
the fall of man ; that lust and sexual passion is anti-spir- 
itual and partakes of the nature of the fallen angels who 
are in rebellion against God's spiritual kingdom. That 
the atonement is the destruction of this physical man with 
his lustful nature and carnal mind — the destruction of 
the serpent in the soul — and the destruction of the serpent 
places man in harmony with God's spiritual nature. 
That the priestly office is the spiritual man, through the 
power of the Spirit triumphing over the fleshly man. That 
the conception of the physical man is contrary to God's 
spiritual kingdom, is the cardinal principle of the Atone- 
ment and Redemption, and the misconstruction and mis- 
interpretation which have declared the physical conception 



192 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

and birth divine, has been the fatal error of the theologian- 
of all the ages. The Christ, as the Chief Priest in redeems 
ing the spiritual man from the power of the physical 
man conceived in lust, triumphs spiritually over the power 
of the flesh — the serpent. "For verily he took not on him 
the nature of angels ; but he took on him the seed of Abra- 
ham. Wherefore in all things it behooved Him to be made 
like unto His brethren that He might be a merciful and 
faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God — to make 
reconciliation for the sins of the people" (Hebrews 12: 
16-17). 

Here we see that the Christ took on Him the seed of 
Abraham; that is, the nature of the spiritual man, for 
the seed of Abraham represents the spiritual man, and as 
High Priest triumphed over the flesh, its lust and power, 
just as every spiritual child of God must by the power of 
the Spirit triumph over the fleshly man, his lust and carnal 
mind. The seed of Abraham is the soul that has overcome 
the lust of the flesh and had the death sting of the serpent 
removed from the soul — He is a Priest — that soul is a 
Christian — priest. The Christ overcame all within 
flesh and became the Chief Priest. The priesthood is 
within every soul that has overcome the serpent. 

"The Lord hath sworn and will not repent — thou 
are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek" 
(Psalm 110: 4). Melchizedek was a perfect manifesta- 
tion of the Spirit in the flesh without the beginning of 
days or the end of time; without father or mother and 
without descent. He was Spirit — therefore eternal life. 
Here, the Scriptures declare that as such he was the Fore- 
runner of the Christ, the Chief Priest who in His spiritual 
nature was perfect Spirit manifested in the flesh without 
lust and passion; and that each one of God's children 
spiritually is a priest after the order of Melchizedek; that 
is the spiritual man whom God created has neither natural 
father or mother, nor descent nor the beginning of days, 
nor the end of time; that the spiritual man that God 
created in His own image is Spirit and therefore eternal, 
and as he triumphs over the fleshly man and denies the 
carnal mind and the lust of the fleshly man and lives in 
harmony with God's spiritual nature, he is a priest after 
the order of Melchizedek. The sacrifices of Aaron and 
the Hebrew priests were shadows of this reality. "Seeing 



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then that we have a great High Priest that has passed 
into the heavens: Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast 
our profession. For we have not an High Priest which can- 
not be touched with a feeling of our infirmities but was 
in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin" (Hebrews 
4: 14-15). 

"Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, 
both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that 
within the veil; whither the forerunner is for us en- 
tered, even Jesus, made an High Priest forever after 
the order of Melchizedek;' (Hebrews < 6: 19-20). "If 
therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood 
(for under it the people received the law), what further 
need was there that another priest should rise after the 
order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of 
Aaron?" (Hebrews 7: 11). 

Here we see that the Levitical priesthood of the Jews 
was a mere shadow of the reality of the spiritual preisthood 
of the Christ as Chief Priest; and the Spirits of God's 
children whom He made in His own image as they crucify 
the power of the flesh and partake of spiritual life come 
into the reality of true priesthood — life. The priestly 
state is a spiritual state and priestly power is spiritual 
power. It is the power of the Spirit that is crucifying the 
power of the fleshly man and partaking of spiritual light 
and life. Every child of God whom He created in His 
own image is a priest when he crucifieth the lust and the 
passion of the physical man and partaketh of spiritual 
light and life. 

"And behold the veil of the temple was rent in 
twain from top to bottom; and the earth did quake and 
the rocks did rent" (Matt. 22-51). Here we see when 
Jesus was crucified upon the cross, that is, when the fleshly 
man died with his lust and passion, and the spiritual 
man — the Christ — triumphed with his light and life, the 
veil of the temple was rent in twain. The lust and sex 
senses of the flesh lost their power over the soul and the 
soul could enter within the veil of the Inner Temple 
and see God — and the earth did quake; the power of the 
flesh cried out and gave up death that the soul 
might live. Under the Jewish priesthood, none could 
enter the Holy of Holies except the Chief Priest. Of course 
the Holy of Holies represented absoulte perfect spiritual 



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life and the Chief Priest was the shadow, and the figure 
of the Christ the Chief Priest, who was to become the 
absolute spiritual life and complete power over the fleshly 
man. The Holy of Holies is the Inner Temple — the 
presence of God — He who is in the Holy of the Holies 
is in the presence of God — only the soul that has had the 
death sting of the serpent removed can see God — can 
enter the Holy of the Holies and such a soul is a priest 
of the Most High God. When the Chief Priest— the 
Christ — died in His fleshly nature as the man Jesus on 
the Cross, He triumphed in His spiritual nature absolutely 
over the fleshly man. Spirit triumphed over matter; 
life over death and as the veil was rent in twain every 
child of God made in God's image could enter the Holy 
of Holies, i. e., into spiritual life and light and God's 
spiritual nature and see God. 

The Crucifixion on the Cross was the completion of 
the reality of which the Jewish Priests, with their for- 
malities and sacrifices, were but shadow and symbols, 
When Jesus died on the cross in His fleshly nature, these 
symbols and formalities passed away without virtue. 
When Jesus died upon the Cross, the fleshly man was con- 
quered by the spiritual man, Spirit triumphed over nature, 
Life over death, and every child of God— the spiritual 
man whom God created in His own image — could enter 
into the Holy of Holies, into spiritual Light and Life, 
into God's spiritual kingdom and become a priest forever, 
after the order of Melchizedek; — Perfect Spirit — perfect 
Light — perfect Life — God's child made by God in His 
own image. The priesthood is within us all, and every 
man must become a priest to see God. The Soul must 
overcome the sensual to know and see God face to face, 
and such a soul is a priest. 



CHAPTER XIX. 

THE IMMACULATE AND SUPERNATURAL CON- 
CEPTION—THE CRUCIFIXION— THE RESUR- 
RECTION — ATONEMENT — BAPTISM — CON- 
VERSION AND REGENERATION, AND THE 
TRINITY. 

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION 
This is the cardinal question of Christianity. It 
is the issue. Upon it the truth of Christianity stands 
or falls. Was Jesus conceived and born of Mary without 
a natural father? If so, then He was no mere man; He 
was not human but Divine and was what He claimed to 
to be, the Son of the living God. If He had a natural 
father and was conceived as the other members of the 
human family, then He was a fraud and the Christian 
system is a falsehood and untrue. 

Man-made theology and the so-called scholastic 
theologians have confessed themselves out of court; 
they have confessed judgment to the agnostic and aethestic 
world by claiming that marriage is an holy institution and 
one of the sacraments of the church and that the human 
birth is holy and spiritual and sacred. If marriage be 
a sacrament of the church and human conception and the 
birth of the natural man sacred and spiritual, then there 
was no need of Jesus being miraculously conceived and 
man needed no redemption. 

All admit as a historical fact that Jesus Christ 
existed; no sane man of impartial judgment who has 
investigated the evidence will deny this as a fact. If man's 
natural birth is spiritual, Jesus was no more spiritual than 
any other man. If marriage be a spiritual institution, 
human conception and birth holy and spiritual, then man 
needs no Redeemer and every man is as much Divine 
as Jesus the Christ. 

We deny that marriage is a spiritual institution, and 
natural conception and birth spiritual, but contend that 

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natural conception and birth originates in the power of the 
lust of the flesh and is contrary to everything that is spir- 
itual and to every law and nature of God's spiritual king- 
dom. 

Therefore, when the spiritual man whom God 
made in His own image, yielded to the lust of the fleshly 
man he took the nature of the darkness of the fleshly 
man into his spiritual consciousness. He partook of 
spiritual death and needed redemption, atonement and 
salvation. The soul made in God's image tasted of death 
and must be returned to life to know God. 

We contend by authority of revelation and by natural 
law that Jesus Christ was conceived and born without 
a natural father. While we have revelation as our au- 
thority for His divinity, His divine nature is sustained 
by natural law. Natural law sustains His divinity with 
as much authority as revelation. Wipe out all revelation, 
destroy the Bible as a book of inspiration and give us 
His teaching as matter of record and we can sustain His 
divinity by natural law. 

The material universe is produced by the law of 
lust — sex — is it's creator and its destruction — which is 
anti-spiritual and contrary to the laws of the spiritual 
universe, therefore there is no harmony between Spirit 
and matter, between the physical creation and the spirit- 
ual creation; they are in conflict with each other. Man 
born of natural parents takes into his spiritual conscious- 
ness the law and the nature of lust which is darkness to 
his spiritual light and is death unto his spiritual nature, 
— the soul. The spiritual man made in God's image, 
manifested in the flesh, by passion and the law of lust, 
inherits and innately takes into his spiritual consciousness 
the law of lust and the carnal mind of the physical man. 
The soul becomes conscious of the serpent and dies. He 
cannot see with perfect spiritual vision nor hear with per- 
fect spiritual ears, nor understand with perfect spiritual 
understanding, he is not in perfect harmony with the 
spiritua nature of his Maker. 

Therefore Socrates, Plato, Confucius and Buddha 
and all of the great mental and spiritual minds of the 
human race, who were born of natural parents, by the 
law of passion and lust, could not teach absolute spiritual 
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spiritual nature of God. They could not see God face to 
face. They reached nearer spiritual perfection than the 
great masses of the human family and therefore were not 
understood by the carnal mind of the rest of the human 
race. But they could not understand absolutely the 
spiritual nature of God. Their spiritual understanding 
was imperfect due to the sting of the serpent. They were 
not perfect spiritually. They were manifested in the 
flesh by the law of passion and lust and their spiritual 
natures were not in absolute harmony with God's spiritual 
kingdom and spiritual laws. Jesus was the only Teacher 
that ever taught absolute spiritual truth and understood 
it with absolute spiritual understanding. Infidel, agnostic, 
materialist, atheist, all admit that His teachings were of the 
highest standard of truth ever given to the human race. 
The agnostic and the infidel will admit that His 
teachings are of such a perfect nature that the human 
cannot live up to them, or fully understand them. 
The agnostic and the atheistic world admit that His 
teachings were the best code that ever was given to the 
human race to govern and regulate the human family. 

Moses, nor the Prophets, whom it is claimed, and 
correctly so, were inspired, never understood spiritual 
truth or taught spiritual things as did Jesus the Christ; 
because in their human nature they were conceived by he 
power of lust and therefore could not be absolutely in 
harmony with spiritual laws and the spiritual truth while 
the spiritual man existed in the material man. In every 
age of the world, men in bondage to the serpent, 
and crying out to be free from the flesh, have created 
in their minds Immaculate Conceptions and Resurrec- 
tions. 

Jesus' teachings were contrary to all human nature 
and to the carnal mind. Every truth that He taught 
and every principle which He declared to be divine truth 
were contrary to human nature and to the human mind. 
The human mind could not understand Him and could not 
comprehend His teachings and human nature was and 
ever will be at war with the truths which he taught. His 
teachings could not be understood by the Scribes and the 
Pharisees and the priesthood; they were in conflict with 
what these men taught, with their lives and human 
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Jesus taught and human nature; the human man and the 
human mind will ever be at war until the end of time with 
His teachings, and why? Because He was divine — He was 
Spirit manifested in the flesh without the law of lust and 
sexual passion; and the human man with his carnal 
mind conceived in lust and passion is of the opposite 
nature and cannot understand spiritual things nor en- 
ter into the state of spiritual consciousness of the Christ' 
who was absolute Spirit. 

Jesus had not the learning, nor the scholarship of 
the great thinkers and spiritual minds of the world. 
Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, Confucius and Buddha and 
other great spiritual and mental teachers of the world, 
were the perfections of all learning, mental training, 
and moral comprehension of great civilizations, yet 
none of these men approached or approximated the 
teachings of the man Jesus; all of their teachings had 
some of the human nature and the human mind in them — 
the serpent. And why? Because they were Spirits mani- 
fested in the flesh by the law of lust and passion and there- 
fore could not enter into a state of absolute spiritual con- 
sciousness. Human nature and the carnal mind, lust and 
passion of the flesh entered into their state of spiritual 
consciousness and therefore their lives and their teach- 
ings were imperfect. The death sting of the serpent was 
within their souls. 

Every truth that Jesus taught is absolutely at issue 
with human nature and the human mind — the serpent. 
Human nature never has and never can be reconciled 
and made to harmonize with His teachings. The Christ 
and the serpent will not harmonize — one is life — the other 
is death. The carnal mind never has and never will under- 
stand His teachings. 

We are taught in the 12th chapter of Leviticus 
that the mother of a natural child, after conception and 
birth, had to make sacrifices for the conception and birth 
of the natural child. And why? Because the human 
child is conceived and born of lust. The lust of the flesh 
is in conflict with God and God's spiritual nature, there- 
fore every human child born of natural parents is conceived 
in lust and sin. For this sin, we are taught, the mother 
had to bring her sacrifices to the altar, which repre- 
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spiritually for the physical conception of the human child 
and the yielding to the law of lust by which the human 
child is conceived and born. Out of this truth circum- 
cision was established as a law with the Jews. Circum- 
cision means "the shedding of blood," and the generative 
organ of the male child was circumcised, representing 
the shedding of blood; which represents death — death of 
the physical man and the loss of his power over the spirit- 
ual man — the death of the serpent. This circumcision 
likewise has a spiritual meaning. The Scriptures teach us 
the circumcision of the heart, which means the spiritual 
man conquering and putting to death the physical man 
with his lust and passion. Had Jesus been conceived by 
the law of lust and natural parents, the power and the 
nature of lust and the carnal mind would have entered 
His spiritual consciousness and He would not have been 
in absolute harmony with God's spiritual nature and spir- 
itual attributes and His teachings spiritually would not 
have been absolute perfection and in all things absolutely 
contrary to human nature and in conflict with the human 
man and the human mind. If Jesus had had a natural 
father, the Christ within would have felt the death sting 
of the serpent. 

Every thought He uttered— every truth He taught — 
every principle He declared, and every element of His 
life was in absolute conflict with human nature and the 
human mind. And upon this fact the truth of Christianity 
rests absolutely secure. The Christ was ever at war with 
the serpent, and it was the serpent within men that 
nailed the man Jesus to the Cross. 

There was not anything human in His life nor any- 
thing human in anything He taught. No human that 
ever lived can live up to His teachings. No human being 
can reach that degree of spiritual life and spiritual truth 
which He taught. The best human being that ever lived 
or ever will live cannot reach that perfection of truth 
which He taught, and why? Because the man born of 
natural parents is Spirit manifested in the flesh by the 
law of lust which is contrary to the attributes of God's 
nature; and Christ was manifested in the flesh, perfect 
Spirit in harmony with the spiritual attributes of God's 
nature, without the law of lust and the attributes of the 
carnal mind entering his spiritual consciousness. The 



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death sting of the serpent never touched His soul. Hence 
the Sermon on the Mount was the most perfect utterance 
of truth ever given to this world — it was spiritual perfec- 
tion and no human mind can approximate it — and no 
human being can live up to it. It was perfect Spirit mani- 
fested to the flesh without the law of lust, declared unto 
men. His Sermon on the Mount was God speaking 
through His Son whom He manifested in the flesh without 
the law of lust and therefore perfect spiritual truth mani- 
fested unto men. Hence God's children manifested in 
the flesh by the law of lust cannot fully comprehend 
it nor live up to it. We must pass from death unto life — 
the soul must overcome the serpent — before we can realize 
the Spirit and the truth of the life He lived, and the life 
of His words. 

Natural law declares by the very nature of things 
that Christ was Spirit manifested in the flesh without 
the law of lust — that he did not have a natural father; 
that the attributes of lust and the carnal mind never 
entered His spiritual consciousness. 

When the infidel and the atheistic world can har- 
monize His life with the lives of the remainder of the 
human family — when they can harmonize His life with 
the lives of the best men that ever lived — then they 
can attack His Divinity. When the agnostic and the 
atheistic world can create a system of philosophy which 
will produce a race who can and will live up to the truth 
of His teachings — when they can find one man — one 
human being who can fully comprehend the spirit of His 
teachings and live up to the truth as He taught it, then 
they can place in issue His Divinity. But until then they 
must remain silent. 

But the same natural law of lust which declares 
the Divinity of Jesus the Christ, likewise destroys every 
system of scholastic theology and establishes beyond 
question that marriage, natural conception and birth are 
human and anti-spiritual in their nature. They are con- 
trary to the spiritual attributes of God's nature and His 
spiritual kingdom. The very law upon which the truth 
of the Divinity of the Christ stands destroys scholastic 
theology — the law of the lust of the fleshly man. 

The writer is too good a lawyer to have first invoked 
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for the infidel and atheistic world denies the truth of 
revelation and the Bible. Therefore we could not quote 
as authority the subject matter, the very truth of which 
is at issue. We accept the Bible as a Revelation but they 
do not. But having established the divinity of Jesus 
Christ by natural law, we now offer in evidence Revela- 
tion as secondary evidence. 

'Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign, 
behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall 
call his name Immanuel" (Isaiah 7: 14). Immanuel 
means "God with us," which is perfect Spirit — a perfect 
spiritual being with all the attributes of God's spiritual 
nature manifested in the flesh. "And he shall pass through 
Judah; and he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach 
even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall 
fill the breadth of thy land, Oh, Immanuel" (Isaiah 8:8). 
Here the prophet Isaiah seven hundred and sixty years 
before Christ foretold of His Immaculate Conception and 
birth. Will any human mind explain to us, except by the 
law of revelation, how he foretold this spiritual truth? 
"Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise; when as 
his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they 
came together, she was found with child of the Holy 
Ghost. Then Joseph, her husband, being a just man, and 
not willing to make her a public example, was minded 
to put her away privily. But while he thought on these 
things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him 
in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not 
to take unto thee Mary thy wife; for that which is con- 
ceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring 
forth a Son, and thou shalt call His name JESUS; for 
he shall save His people from their sins. Now all this was 
done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the 
Lord by the Prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be 
with child and shall bring forth a son, and they shall 
call His name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, 
God with us. Then Joseph being raised from sleep did 
as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto 
him his wife : and knew her not till she had brought forth 
her first born son; and he called His name Jesus" (Matt. 
1: 18-25). 

"And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent 
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a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, 
and of the house of David; and the virgin's name was 
Mary. And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, 
thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee: 
blessed art thou among women. And when she saw him, 
she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what 
manner of salutation this should be. And the angel said 
unto her, Fear not, Mary, for thou has found favor with 
God. And behold, thou shall conceive in thy womb, and 
bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus. He shall 
be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest; 
and the Lord God shall give unto Him the throne of His 
father David ; and He shall reign over the house of Jacob 
forever; and of His kingdom there shall be no end. Then 
said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I 
know not a man? And the angel answered and said unto 
her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power 
of the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore also that 
Holy Thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the 
Son of God" (Luke 1: 26-35). We observe here, "That 
He shall reign over the house of Jacob forever and of His 
kingdom there shall be no end"; that is, He shall reign 
over the house of Jacob, the spiritual man whom God 
created in His own image, who has had the death sting of 
the serpent removed, and has returned to the Garden of 
Eden, and there is no end to this life. His reign in His 
Father's kingdom is eternal. Spirit is eternal. 

"Which was born not of blood nor of the will of the 
flesh nor of the will of man but of God" (John 1: 13.) 
"The Word— the reality of God as life — which God sent 
unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus 
Christ; He is Lord of all" (Acts 10: 36). "And he was 
clothed in vesture dipped in blood and His name is called 
THE WORD — the reality of God as life — the expression 
of God as the only reality and life in the universe of God" 
(Rev. 19: 13). "And He hath on His vesture and on his 
thigh the name written KING OF KINGS AND LORD 
OF LORDS" (Rev. 19: 16). 

Thus we see that Holy Writ agrees with natural law 
that Jesus Christ was Immaculately and Supernaturally 
Conceived and gives us the record. By authority of nat- 
ural law and of revelation we float the old ship Zion into 
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rest her on the eternal Rock of Ages and while the winds 
of infidelity and of lust howl and storm, beat and rage 
until they sink side by side every ship of agnosticism and 
atheism and man-made theology, created by the physical 
senses and the lust of the carnal mind, the old Ship of 
Zion rests steadfastly, anchored serenely and securely 
on the Rock of Ages throughout eternity. 

Christ was the seed of the woman, that is, he partook 
of the fleshly nature without the law of lust, and passion 
entering His spiritual conscience— the soul — (That is, 
he did not have a natural father). This was necessary 
for the Atonement; that is, it was necessary for Him a 
perfect Spirit, with all the spiritual attributes of God, to 
be manifested in the flesh without lust (without a natural 
father) and to triumph over the flesh in order to reconcile 
the spiritual man, whom God created in His own image 
and who had been manifested in the flesh by the law of 
lust, with God's spiritual kingdom — to make man at- 
one-ment with God. "And I will put enmity between thee 
and the woman and between thy seed and her seed and it 
shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel" 
(Genesis 3: 15). "Thy seed" here refers to the fleshly man 
and means the fleshly, man who is produced as the result 
of the law of passion and lust, and his thought and carnal 
mind. "And her seed" was the Christ who should be 
conceived without a natural father — Spirit in the flesh 
without the law of lust — Perfect Spiritual Purity. And 
"The Enmity" here means the war between the spiritual 
man and the fleshly man— the thoughts of the Spirit, and 
the thoughts of the flesh — and Christ, was Spirit manifest- 
ed in the flesh without the law of lust, and therefor lust 
never entered His spiritual consciousness. 

"How long wilt thou go about, oh, thou backsliding 
daughter? For the Lord hath created a new thing in the 
earth. A woman shall compass a man" (Jeremiah 31 : 22). 
Here the birth of Christ by a woman without natural law 
and without lust and passion is foretold by the Prophet. 
That He should be flesh and yet possess all the spiritual 
attributes of God's .nature, was prophesied because He was 
to be and was conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost 
and manifested in the flesh without passion. "And 
behold thou shall conceive in thy womb and bring forth 
a son and shall call his name Jesus" (Luke 1: 31). The 



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Christ was perfect Spirit with all the attributes of God's 
spiritual nature manifested in the flesh without passion 
and lust, therefore the law of lust never entered His spir- 
itual consciousness; yet having been born of a woman, 
He partook of the nature of the flesh and could reconcile 
God's spiritual children whom God created in His own 
image to God and God's spiritual kingdom by tri- 
umphing over the flesh and the law of lust. This is the 
reason He was born of a woman, that is, that He might 
partake of the nature of the flesh. And He was born 
without a natural father that His spiritual life might con- 
tain all the spiritual attributes of God's spiritual nature. 
He was the Son of Man because He possessed a physical 
body and had a natural mother and He was the Son of 
God because the Christ was perfect Spirit manifested in 
the flesh without lust. He was the Son of God — the 
Spiritual Conception of His Father. If He had had a 
natural father, the law of lust would have entered His 
spiritual consciousness and He would not have remained 
in perfect harmony with God's spiritual kingdom and 
would not have contained all the spiritual attributes of 
God's spiritual nature. "But when the fullness of the time 
was come, God sent forth His Son made of a woman, made 
unto the law, to redeem them that were under the law, 
that we might receive the adoption of sons" (Gal. 4: 4-5). 
Here we have the record of the Christ's manifestation in the 
flesh without lust and containing all the spiritual attri- 
butes in His nature of God and yet partaking of the fleshly 
nature of the material man and thereby redeeming the 
spiritual man from bondage to the law of the fleshly man 
and reconciling the spiritual man to perfect harmony 
with God. The spiritual man having been manifested in 
the flesh by the law of lust took into his spiritual conscious- 
ness the attributes of the carnal mind and the fallen angels 
and therefore was out of harmony with God's spiritual 
nature and could not live up to the attributes of God's 
spiritual kingdom. He was condemned under the law: 
He had within his spiritual consciousness the attributes 
of lust of the fleshly man. The Christ having been mani- 
fested in the flesh without lust remained in perfect har- 
mony with God's spiritual kingdom and had all the spir- 
itual attributes of God s spiritual nature and triumphed 
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In His fleshly nature He died unto the law of the 
flesh.; in His spiritual nature, He lived in harmony with 
every law of God's spiritual kingdom. The depravity 
of the human man with his lustful nature, when taken 
into the consciousness of the spiritual man, made the 
Atonement necessary in order to restore the spiritual 
man whom God created in His own image back to harmony 
with God's spiritual kingdom and God's spiritual nature. 

The lust of the physical man Jesus was the tempta- 
tion of the Christ; was the power of the carnal mind 
knocking for admission to His spiritual consciousness. 
The Christ was undergoing the temptation of the sex 
senses of the man Jesus in the wilderness. The same 
Devil and serpent was there that was in the Garden that 
caused Adam and Eve to fall. The lust of the flesh is the. 
spiritual nature of the fallen angels and spiritually speaking 
is spiritual death as well as physical death. Every funeral 
that slowly moves in solemn procession to the City of the 
Dead declares the irrefutable evidence that the lust of the 
flesh is death. "For this cause thou shalt return to dust." 

It was this power of lust personified in the nature 
of the fallen angels, which is called "the Devil," that 
attempted to tempt the Christ. When He cast out devils 
He cast out this power of lust manifested in anti-spiritual 
thoughts. It was the thoughts of the carnal mind and the 
power of the lust of the flesh that He cast out from the 
spiritual consciousness of the spiritual man when He cast 
out devils. These thoughts of lust of the carnal mind 
in the consciousness of the spiritual man possess the 
spiritual attributes of the angels who reblled against God — 
they were devils; and the Christ cast them out from the 
mind and the spiritual consciousness of the spiritual man 
— the soul. 

He was tempted in the flesh, but the law of lust 
and the attributes of the carnal mind never entered his 
spiritual consciousness and that is what the Scripture 
means when it says, "He was tempted in all things as 
we are yet was without sin." Christ Himself defined 
the power and the nature of the law of lust and the carnal 
mind entering the spiritual consciousness of the spiritual 
man when He said, "But I say unto you that whosoever 
looketh on a woman to lust after her committeth adultery 
with her already in his heart" (Matt. 5: 28). Here the 



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Christ defines the power of the lust of the natural man 
and declares when it enters into the state of spiritual con- 
sciousness — the thoughts of the soul — that it destroys 
spiritual life; that is, the lust of the fleshly man is death, 
and the Spirit of the spiritual man is life. That is what 
the Devil did in tempting the Christ, or rather attempted 
to do. The Devil being the lust of the natural man, tried 
to enter into the state of the spiritual consciousness of 
the Christ. When the Christ went into the wilderness 
and fasted forty days and forty nights, the tempter came 
to Him; and, of course, "tempter" means Devil; the 
Devil, being the attributes of lust of the natural man, 
knocked at the door of the Christ's. "Then the devil 
taketh him up into the Holy City, and setteth him on a 
pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him, If thou be the 
Son of God, cast thy self down; for it is written He shall 
give His angels charge concerning thee : and in their hands 
they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy 
foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, It is written, 
Thou shalt not tempt the Lord, thy God. Again, the 
devil taketh him up into an exceedingly high mountain, 
and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the 
glory of them; and said unto him, All these things will 
I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then 
saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence Satan. For it is 
written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him 
only shall thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and 
behold Angels came and ministered unto him" (Mat- 
thew 4: 5-11). 

The Holy City herein mentioned into which the 
devil carried the Christ, was the spiritual consciousness 
of the soul, and dwelleth in every child made in God's 
image. It was this Holy City — spiritual consciousness, 
— that the devil, which is the lust of the flesh, was at- 
tempting to enter — Christ's spiritual consciousness — the 
City of Soul Purity — the soul in the image of God. But 
the Christ having been conceived without lust, the law 
of lust and the carnal mind could not enter His spiritual 
consciousness — could not destroy the image of His Father 
in His soul. All of the kingdoms of this world and the 
glory of them mentioned here, of course, mean the power 
of the fleshly man and the attributes of the carnal mind 
— gratification of the lust and sex senses of the man 



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Jesus. It was the glory of material creation which is anti- 
spiritual that the devil, that is, the lust of the fleshly man, 
offered to the Christ, who partook of all the spiritual attri- 
butes of God. It was the glory of the lust of the fleshly 
man, trying to conquer the life of the spiritual man. It 
was a contest between Spirit and matter, between the lust 
of the fleshly man and the Life of the spiritual man. And 
the Christ having been born of a woman, His perfect spir- 
itual nature having all the spiritual attributes of God, the 
lust of the flesh could not enter His spiritual conscious- 
ness, and destroy any of these spiritual attributes. Yet 
having been born of a woman, His perfect spiritual nature 
was manifested in the flesh, and conquered the law of the 
flesh and hence He was able to say, "Get thee hence, 
Satan." That is, the Christ was able to close His spiritual 
consciousness — soul — against the lust and sex senses of 
the fleshly man Jesus and the carnal mind and forever 
exclude them from His spiritual consciousness and the 
spiritual kingdom and the spiritual attributes of God's 
nature. 

We therefore see that the Divinity of Jesus Christ 
and His Immaculate Conception are established both by 
natural law and by revelation. 

CRUCIFIXION 

To crucify means "to subdue," "to destroy the power 
or the ruling influence." That is what Christ did when 
Jesus was crucified on the Cross. That is, He destroyed 
the power and the ruling influence of the lust of the fleshly 
man and the carnal mind in the spiritual consciousness of 
the spiritual man — the soul. It was the Adam man that died 
on the cross, the Christ man lived. The serpent died, the 
Christ never died. The fleshly man with all of his lus tand car- 
nal mind died and the spiritual man with His spiritual life 
lived. The lust of the physical man and his carnal mind 
were destroyed on the Cross in the consciousness of the 
spiritual man; this is "The Atonement," restoring the 
soul to life and making it at one with God, who is life. The 
law which demanded spiritual perfection and which the 
spiritual man, who is manifested in the flesh by the power 
of lust, could not fulfill because the law of lust had 
entered his spiritual conscience — soul — was satisfied. 
The demands of the law were fulfilled on the Cross and 



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lust was destroyed in the spiritual consciousness of every 
child of God, whom He made in His own image, who par- 
takes of the Christ's Atonement and makes it personal 
within his own consciousness. 

"Now from the sixth hour, there was darkness over 
all the land until the ninth hour; and about the ninth 
hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, saying, My God, 
My God, why hast thou farsaken me? and behold, the 
veil of the temple was rent in twain from top to bottom 
and the earth it quaked and the rocks rent" (Matt. 27: 
46-51). "And Jesus cried in a loud voice and gave up the 
ghost and the veil of the temple was rent in twain from 
top to bottom" (Mark 15: 37-38). "And it was about 
the sixth hour and there was darkness over all the earth 
until the ninth, and the sun was darkened and the veil 
of the temple was rent in the midst" (Luke 23: 44-45). 
It was the Adam man — the man conceived of woman who 
died on the Cross. When the material man died on the 
Cross the flesh lost its power and corrupting influence and 
the reign of darkness within the consciousness of the spir- 
itual man was destroyed. God's spiritual kingdom and 
God's spiritual nature overcame the nature of the angels 
who rebelled against His spiritual kingdom when the 
fleshly man died on the Cross. The earth was shrouded 
in darkness, Spirit overcame matter and Life overcame 
death. The Christ overcame the Adam man. The earth 
— the flesh — was shrouded in darkness — lust — Satan had 
lost his power over the soul. 

"And the veil was rent in twain"; the veil here men- 
tioned enclosed the Holy of Holies and none could enter 
the Holy of Holies except the Chief Priest during the 
Mosaic dispensation. "The temple" is every man's 
material body in which dwells the spiritual man made 
in God's image; and the spiritual man, spiritual conscious- 
ness — the soul — is the Holy of Holies. No man could 
enter into his own spiritual consciousness in a perfect state 
of spiritual life, who is conceived of the law of lust, until 
the Adam man died and the power of lust was destroyed in 
his spiritual consciousness. The Chief Preist was the 
symbol and the Forerunner of the Christ. None could 
enter the state of perfect spiritual consciousness in abso- 
lute harmony with God's spiritual nature except the 
Christ; but when Jesus died upon the cross in the 



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flesh, the reign and darkness of the lust and carnal 
mind of the physical man within the conscious- 
ness of the spiritual man was destroyed, and every 
child of God whom He made in His image became a 
priest, and by partaking of the spiritual nature of The 
Christ, could enter into the Holy of Holies of his own 
spiritual consciousness and commune with God and know 
God's spiritual kingdom, spiritual laws and spiritual 
nature — could see God face to face. The veil was 
rent in twain — the sex senses and the power of lust and 
the carnal mind of the fleshly man which prevented the 
spiritual man from entering into a state of spiritual con- 
sciousness was destroyed from the consciousness of the 
spiritual man and the spiritual man could enter into the 
Holy of Holies of his own spiritual nature. His soul 
could hear and see God and realize God as life. 

"Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, 
that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should 
not henceforth serve sin" (Romans 6: 6). "I am crucified 
with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ 
liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I 
live by faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave 
himself for me" (Gal. 2: 20). "And they that are Christ's 
have crucified the flesh with affections and lust" (Gal. 
5: 24). The Adam man was death, the Christ man is 
Life. The Adam man was conceived in lust, the Christ 
man by the power of God. The Adam man with his na- 
ture of lust and death, died on the Cross — the Christ 
man who possessed all the attributes of God's .spiritual 
nature, lived and reigneth forevermore. The Adam man 
with his carnal mind and lustful nature, and who reper- 
sents the spiritual attributes of the angels who rebelled 
against God's spiritual kingdom, lost his power in God's 
spiritual kingdom and within the spiritual consciousness 
of God's children, whom God created in His own image, 
when Christ in the fleshly nature of the man Jesus died 
on the Cross. The angels who rebelled against God's 
spiritual kingdom lost their power in their rebellion 
against God and His spiritual kingdom, when the fleshly 
man died on the Cross and the Christ man lived. That is 
what Christ meant when He said to Peter, "Flesh and 
blood hath not revealeth it unto thee, but my Father 
which is in heaven." That is, the fleshly man with his 



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power of lust has lost his power over God's spiritual chil- 
dren. The fleshly man with his lust and carnal mind repre- 
sents the nature of the angels who rebelled against God's 
spiritual kingdom; and when Christ died upon the Cross 
in His fleshly nature, these angels who rebelled against 
God's kingdom lost their power over God's spiritual chil- 
dren and His spiritual kingdom. And God's children 
can enter into the Holy of Holies and commune with their 
Father. Flesh and blood have lost their power over the 
spiritual man — the soul. The fleshly man died and the 
spiritual man liveth forever. 

"Then answered all the people and said, His blood 
be on us and on our children" (Matt. 27: 35). The Jew 
is a symbol of and represents the spiritual man, whom God 
created in His own image. They are God's chosen people. 
This spiritual man created in God's image is God's chosen 
child when He returns to the Garden of Eden. The Jew 
from the day of the Crucifixion has been persecuted and 
scattered over the earth. The spiritual man is daily being 
persecuted by the lust of the fleshly man. "His blood 
be on us and our children," that is, the crucifixion of the 
fleshly man represents the shedding of blood, and the 
shedding of blood represents death. And hence the 
fleshly man, while persecuting the spiritual man, is daily 
dying, and will until the end of time. The blood of Jesus, 
the fleshly man on the cross, is on the children of the Adam 
man, who are daily persecuting the spiritual children of 
God, created in His own image; yet the spiritual children 
of God are living and will continue to live, and the fleshly 
man is dying and will continue to die until the end of time, 
when all of God's children will be set free from the bondage 
of the fleshly man who return to the Garden of Eden. 
The Jew is a figure and symbolic of a great spiritual 
truth and the world does not understand it. The 
Jew as a race bears irrefutable evidence of the 
revelation and inspiration of the Bible and the Divinity 
of Jesus Christ. The Crucifixion means finally, the 
destruction of the power of the fallen angels and the death 
of the Adam man, and eternal life for the spiritual man, 
whom God created in His image. The Crucifixion repre- 
sents death and life, death to the Adam man and life to 
the spiritual man. It represents the destruction finally of 



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the material universe and the eternity of the spiritual 
universe. 

RESURRECTION 

Resurrection primarily means the restoration to 
Life, not physical life, but spiritual life. It was the spir- 
itual man, the Christ, who overcame the grave. The Adam 
man born of a woman, and conceived in lust, when he dies, 
is dead, but the God man made in God's image is resur- 
rected, that is, restored to life and liveth, and continues 
to have life. The physical man conceived in lust and born 
of a woman, cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Flesh 
and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven. Man- 
made theology has been trying to save the physical man 
conceived in lust and born of woman and has declared that 
he would be resurrected. Thus man-made theology has 
been teaching a physical god to the physical senses of a 
physical man. God says, "All things shall pass away 
except my word," "My word," here comes from the 
Greek word "logos," which means "expression" of reality, 
truth and life and spirit; and He expressed Himself as 
reality, truth, life and spirit to His children, that is, to 
His spiritual children in His Son, the Christ, who possessed 
all the spiritual attributes of the Father; and God declares 
that His word shall never pass away, that is, the light and 
life of His spirituality, as expressed through His Son to 
His spiritual children, whom He made in His own image 
shall never pass away. The material creation therefore 
will pass away; there was a time when all was Spirit, 
when matter did not exist. The time will come when mat- 
ter will cease to exist, when all will be Spirit. How then 
is the physical man going to be resurrected and live eter- 
nally? When the physical man dieth he returneth to 
dust. "From dust wast thou taken and to dust thou shalt 
return." But the spiritual man shall live, shall have life. 
The resurrection is life and the spiritual man shall have 
life eternally. "As for me, I will behold thy face in right- 
eousness, I shall be satisfied when I awake in thy like- 
ness" (Psalm 17: 15). Here the Psalmist foretells of the 
resurrection, that is: declares that he will be satisfied 
when he awakes in God's likeness. That is to say that 
he will be satisfied, when he, the spiritual man, shall 
awake in absolute spiritual life and likeness of God, the 



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Father, who made him. There is only one reality — life 
truth and spirit — God — and His Word is the expression 
of Himself as reality and life. Matter only exists in the 
absence of the real and as we come to God and into His 
presence as reality and life, matter and death, which are 
unreal pass away. When God therefore shall be fully re- 
vealed in us, sin, death and matter will not exist. "But 
as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read 
that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the 
God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of 
Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living" 
(Matt. 22: 31-32). Here Jesus declares that it is not the 
physical man that is resurrected, but the spiritual man, 
whom God created in His own image. He here declares 
that God is not the God of the dead, that is, not the God 
of the physical man — conceived of lust and born of woman 
but the God of the spiritual man — whom God made in 
His own image, and that it is this spiritual man whom God 
resurrects and unto whom God gives life. "Marvel not 
at this : for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the 
graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth ; They that 
have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they 
that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation" 
(John 5: 28-29). Grave, here means death. Every child 
of God, shall come forth and "they that have done good, 
unto the resurrection of life," that is, shall be given life, 
spiritual life, according to the attributes of God's spiritual 
kingdom; "and they that have done evil, unto the resur- 
rection of damnation." That is, those who have taken 
lust and the carnal mind of the natural man into their 
spiritual consciousness, shall be denied spirituals lif e and 
light. The resurrection is life. "And their eyes were 
opened and they knew Him and He vanished out of their 
sight" (Luke 24: 31). Here we have the Christ, not the 
man Jesus, appearing to His Disciples after the Resur- 
rection, and manifesting Himself to their physical senses 
and then disappearing and assuming His spiritual nature. 
They couldn't understand the spiritual resurrection of the 
spiritual body, the resurrection of the soul to life, and He 
appeared to their physical senses to convince them of the 
truth of Resurrection, that He still lived; and He said 
unto them, "Why are ye troubled and why do thoughts 
arise in your hearts? Behold, my hands and my feet, 



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that it is myself, handle me and see, for Spirit hath not 
flesh and bones, as ye see Me have" (Luke 24: 38, 39). 
Here we have Him appearing again after the Resurrec- 
tion and manifesting Himself to their physical senses in 
order that He might convince them of the truth of the 
Resurrection but after He had manifested Himself to their 
physical senses, He withdrew from them as a physical 
personality and assumed His spiritual nature and spiritual 
body and spiritual individuality. It was the Christ, the 
spiritual man, who was resurrected. It was Christ, the 
spiritual man, who appeared to His disciples in the upper 
chamber. It was Christ, the spiritual man, who appeared 
to Paul after the Resurrection and not Jesus the fleshly 
man. It is not the man conceived in lust and born of a 
woman that is resurrected to eternal life, but the Man 
made by God in His own image. God is the God of the 
living Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of the soul that 
has been restored to life, born again. As Paul puts it, 
"There is a natural body and a spiritual body," and it is 
the spiritual body, the spiritual man, which is resurrected 
and given eternal life. "For in the resurrection they 
neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the 
Angels of God in heaven," (Matt. 22: 30). Here Jesus 
declares that flesh and blood — the material man — as 
never resurrected, but the spiritual man whom God made 
in His image, is resurrected, when the soul is restored to 
life and the death sting of the serpent is removed from 
the soul by the regeneration of the soul then the soul is 
given spiritual life and light and the spiritual attributes 
of Angels, and in this state of life they neither marry nor 
are given in marriage — it is the serpent which makes the 
children of this world marry. The spiritual man is resur- 
rected unto eternal life with the spiritual body. "Then 
the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, 
when the doors were shut where the Disciples were as- 
sembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the 
midst, and said unto them, Peace be unto you" (John 
20: 19). Here we have Christ appearing after the Resur- 
rection in His spiritual body to His Disciples and manifest- 
ing Himself to them in His spiritual nature and in His 
spiritual body. It was the Christ, the Son of God, who 
possessed all the spiritual attributes of His Father, who 
was resurrected, and liveth in His spiritual nature. It is 



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the spiritual man whom God created in His own image, 
that is resurrected and liveth eternally. As Paul puts 
it, "It is sown in corruption, raised in corruption, it is 
sowed in mortality and raised in immortality/' The 
body of the physical man is conceived in lust, born of a 
woman, dieth with the physical man and will pass away 
with the remainder of the material creation. The spiritual 
man created in God's image, liveth forever; he is resur- 
rected; that is, is given life — spiritual life — eternal life 
and eternal light — a spiritual personality, a spiritual con- 
sciousness and a spiritual body. 

THE ATONEMENT. 

"Being justified freely by His grace through the re- 
demption that is in Christ Jesus" (Romans 3: 24). "So 
Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; unto them 
that look for Him shall He appear the second time with- 
out sin unto salvation" (Heb. 9: 28). "And he is the 
propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also 
for the sins of the whole world" (1 John 2: 2). "But I 
say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit 
of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you 
in my Father's kingdom" (Matt. 26: 29). "But into the 
second went the High Priest alone once every year, not 
without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the 
errors of the people; the Holy Ghost this signifying, that 
the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, 
while as the first tabernacle was yet standing; which was 
a figure for the time then present in which were offered 
both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did 
the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; 
which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, 
and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time 
of reformation. But Christ being come an High Priest 
of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect 
tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of 
this building: neither by the blood of goats and calves, 
but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy 
place, having obtained eternal redemption for us" (Heb. 
9: 7-12). Here we see that the Christ, the spiritual man, 
with all the spiritual attributes of God, when He died, 
as the man Jesus, in the flesh on the Cross, conquered 
the material man and made the material man dead unto 



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the spiritual man; He drove the power of the man of 
flesh out of the consciounsess of the man of the Spirit . 
He destroyed the carnal mind and its influence over the 
spiritual mind. He forever separated the man of flesh 
from the man of Spirit; the carnal mind from the spiritual 
mind, death from life; matter from Spirit, and made the 
spiritual man at-one-ment with God; that is, reconciled 
the spiritual man with God; and made him in perfect 
harmony with God's spiritual nature and God's kingdom. 
This atonement is personal to every child of God's whom 
God made in His own image; who applies it to himself 
and takes the spiritual nature of the Christ into his spir- 
itual consciousness and spiritual mind and excludes the 
lust of the material man and the power of the carnal mind 
from his spiritual consciousness, spiritual mind and spir- 
itual nature. This is the Atonement. The Atonement 
is the restoration of the soul to life — the removing of the 
death sting of the serpent from the soul and the soul 
returning to Eden, to the image of God, where the man 
made in the image of God is at one with God. 

CONVERSION. 

The body is a temple in which dwelleth the Spirit 
of the man whom God made in His own image. This 
physical body or material temple must perish and after 
death the spiritual man will possess a spiritual body which 
will be the spiritual temple. The temple at Jerusalem 
was a figure of the spiritual temple. ' 'Jesus answered and 
said unto them, Destroy this temple and in three days 
I will raise it up" (John 2: 19). Here Jesus referred to 
His physical body and told them to destroy the physical 
body and in three days He would raise it and resurrect 
it a spiritual body, but the people did not understand 
Him; they thought He meant destroy the temple of 
Jerusalem and He would raise it up in three days. They 
could not understand that all the formalities and the of- 
ferings of the priest and the ceremonies of the Jewish 
religion were figures, and symbolic of spiritual truths 
and spiritual things. The people of today, and in all 
ages, have attempted to materialize spiritual things 
and to materialize God so as to appeal to their physi- 
cal senses and carnal mind. The Jews did it in their 
day — the world is doing it today. But God is Spirit 



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and His Kingdom is spiritual and His Church liveth 
in the consciousness of the spiritual man. "Know ye 
not that ye are the temple of God and that the Spirit 
of God dwelleth in you" (Cor. 1: 3-16). "What? know 
ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost — 
Holy Life — which is in you, which ye have of God, and 
ye are not your own?" (1 Cor. 6: 19). "And what 
agreement hath the temple of God with idols?" — the 
spirit with the sex and lust senses of the flesh, for ye 
are the temple of the living God; as God has said, "I 
will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their 
God, and they shall be my people" (2 Cor. 6: 16). The 
natural body, which is a temple in which dwelleth the 
spiritual body, is imperfect and is at enmity with God. 
No human building is perfect. The Temple at Jerusalem 
— the master construction of the ages — as a figure and 
a symbol of Jesus' body, the Temple of God's spiritual 
kingdom, was imperfect. So is the human man, conceived 
in lust, which is the temple in which dwelleth the Spirit 
of God, imperfect. The Scripture teaches us to spiritually 
conquer and subdue this physical man and subject his 
lustful nature to the power of the spiritual man; and the 
carnal mind to the influence of the spiritual mind through 
Christ, the High Priest and spiritual perfection; which 
is a command to every child of God created in God's 
own spiritual image to enter into His own spiritual con- 
sciousness and worship the living God, and by so doing, 
to conquer the material man with his lustful nature by 
the power of the Spirit. That is what Jesus meant when 
He said, "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you." 
"Conversion" means changing from or turning from; 
that is, turning from the material man to the spiritual 
man, from the carnal mind to the spiritual mind. Grow- 
ing and developing spiritually within your own spiritual 
consciousness and thereby conquering and subdueing 
the physical man and his lust and carnal mind, is conver- 
sion and growing in grace. Conversion is changing from 
the power of the natural body to the Spirit within the 
body, turning from the worship of idols — the sex and lust 
senses — to the worship of the only true God as Spirit and 
Life. This spiritual growth of the spiritual man in spirit- 
ual consciousness and the conquering and subduing the 
physical man with his lust and carnal mind, is a process 



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of evolution ; it is growing in grace and is never perfected 
as long as the natura 1 man is alive. As long as the spirit- 
ual man dwelleth in the material man conceived in lust, 
there is a conflict going on between the spiritual man and 
the material man; but the gradual and continual develop- 
ment of the spiritual man within his spiritual conscious- 
ness and the conquering and subduing of the physical man 
and the law of lust, the turning from the man of flesh with 
his power of death, to the man of Spirit with His power of 
life is conversion. 

REGENERATION. 

"And Jesus said unto them, Verily, I say unto you, 
that ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when 
the Son of Man shall sit in the throne of His glory, ye 
also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve 
tribes of Israel" (Matt. 19: 28). "Which were born not 
of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor the will of man, 
but of God" (John 1: 13). "Jesus answered and said 
unto him verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be 
born again he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 
3: 3). "That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that 
which is born of the Spirit is Spirit" (John 3:6). Here 
we see that Jesus recognizes and differentiates between 
the spiritual man made in God's image and the physical 
man conceived in lust and born of woman, and defines 
their natures; "Regeneration" means to recreate — to 
reproduce. Here Jesus declares the man conceived in 
lust and born of woman cannot know or enter the king- 
dom of God, and that the spiritual man whom God made 
in His own image and who is manifested in the flesh by 
the law of lust and takes into his spiritual consciousness 
the darkness and death of lust — the mind of the serpent — 
and the carnal mind of the physical man, must be de- 
stroyed and is dead spiritually. This soul to see and to 
realize God as reality and life must be recreated. The 
death sting of the serpent must be removed from the soul. 
"Him that overcometh, will I make a pillar in the temple 
of my God, and he shall go no more out; and I will write 
upon him the name of my God, and the name of the City 
of my God, which is New Jerusalem, which cometh down 
out of Heaven from my God; and I will write upon him 
my new name" (Rev. 3: 12). Here we have the spiritual 



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man made in God's image, redeemed from the power of 
the lust and the carnal mind of the physical man, who 
has entered into perfect harmony with God's spiritual 
kingdom, and clothed in the spiritual body and spiritual 
life. Here the child of God has been recreated in the power 
of the Spirit and has entered in to the full possession of his 
spiritual temple, the spiritual body. This is Regeneration 
and the Final Resurrection. 

BAPTISM. 

Baptism is symbolic in its nature. It represents the 
death of the physical man and the life of the spiritual 
man. It represents the death and burial of the physical 
man — the spiritual life and spiritual resurrection of the 
spiritual man. We bury the physical body of the material 
man. The grave is the end of the physical man; it repre- 
sents death — the spiritual death of the soul. "Then 
cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be 
baptized of him. But John forbade Him, saying, I have 
need to be baptized of Thee, and comest Thou to me? 
And Jesus answered and said unto Him, Suffer it to be so 
now; for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. 
Then He suffered him. And Jesus, when He was baptized, 
went up straightway out of the water; and, lo, the heavens 
were opened unto Him, and He saw the Spirit of God 
descending like a dove, and lighting upon Him. And, lo, 
a voice from Heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son in 
whom I am well pleased" (Matt. 3: 13-17). Baptism is a 
symbol of the Baptism of the soul by the Holy Spirit — the 
Holy Life coming into and upon the soul by God awaken- 
ing the soul to life from the death sting of the serpent. 

The baptism of Jesus represented the death and the 
grave of the physical man; coming out of the water and 
the Spirit of God descending, represents the spiritual 
baptism for the spiritual man. There is no saving power 
in the form of baptism or in baptism itself, but it repre- 
sents a spiritual truth. It represents the death of" the 
material man and the life of the spiritual man. Jesus 
died and went into the tomb physically, He lived and 
ascended into heaven spiritually. The material man 
conceived in lust must die; the grave is his final home; 
death is his finality. The spiritual man made in God's 
image is immortal and must continue to live and as he 
partakes of the nature of the Christ, he will live in spirit- 



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ual Light and spiritual Life. Jesus was ' 'buried" in bap- 
tism; that is, the water was the grave for his physical 
body, representing the grave of the physical man at 
death; and He arose from and out of the watery grave 
and the Spirit of God descended upon Him, the symbol 
of spiritual life of the spiritual man as he separates his 
spiritual nature from the material man; and, finally, when 
the dissolution comes between the physical and the spirit- 
ual man, the physical man goes to the grave, the spiritual 
man goes into spiritual light and spiritual life, into God's 
kingdom and God's presence. All that have been truly 
baptized of the Spirit, every soul that has been quickened 
from the death sting of the serpent goes into the presence 
of God. 

THE TRINITY. 
God is one God. "I am that I am," was His declara- 
tion to Moses, the Prophets and His children. Jehovah 
was the God of the Jews and Jehovah was the "I am that 
I am"; one God. Jehovah is a Spirit Universal Spiritual 
Intelligence. He filleth all space and all time, He is Life, 
Light and eternal Truth. "Can any hide himself in secret 
places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not 
I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord" (Jer. 23: 24). 
From Genesis to Revelation, God reveals Himself to 
His children as one God, the Universal Spiritual Intelli- 
gence. Christ never claimed to be God, but the Son of 
God; that is, He possessed all the spiritual attributes of 
His Father and that He was eternal Spirit and eternal 
Life and eternal Truth manifested in the flesh by the power 
of God, that is, by the power of the Spirit. God in express- 
ing Himself to His spiritual children becomes personal to 
each and every one of them as the Holy Spirit and Holy 
Ghost, in creating the soul anew He becomes the Holy 
Life to the soul. It is God's power of expression as life to 
His spiritual children personally which is the Holy Spirit 
and Holy Ghost. The Holy Spirit and the Holy Ghost is 
God manifesting Himself personally to His spiritual 
children and not a separate and distinct personality. 
The idea of multiplicity of gods in one was adopted into 
the Christian system from the pagan religions. All the 
pagan religions had their multiplicity of gods — the gods of 
the sex and lust senses — and the adulteration of the Christ- 
ian religion with these pagan religions with their multiplicity 



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of gods is the source of the conception of the Trinity of the 
Christian religion. The Bible nowhere teaches that God 
is three separate persons in one, but it does teach that 
His Son, the Christ, possessed all the spiritual attributes 
of the Father and was Divine and that God does manifest 
Himself and express Himself personally a spiritual Being 
to His spiritual children and is to them a personal spiritual 
Being. It is God's expression as a spiritual Being per- 
sonally to His spiritual children as life that constitutes 
the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is God manifesting 
Himself and expressing Himself as a spiritual personal 
Being to His spiritual personal children as Holy Life. 

"God is Spirit and they that worship Him must 
worship him in Spirit and in truth" (John 3:4). "But 
the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost — Holy Life to 
the Soul — whom the Father will send in my name, he 
shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your 
remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you" (John 
14: 26). "Now the Lord is that Spirit; and where the 
Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty" (Cor. 2: 3-17). "If 
ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your 
children; how much more shall your heavenly Father 
give the Holy Spirit — Holy Life — to them that ask him?" 
(Luke 11: 13). The Holy Spirit and the Comforter here 
mentioned is God manifesting His spiritual and personal 
nature unto the spiritual and personal nature of His chil- 
dren as life. Everywhere in the Bible He is referred to as 
a Person, as a Spirit and as an individual single personality. 
"I am the Almighty God, walk before me, and be thou 
perfect" (Gen. 17: 1). God is not a multiplicity of gods 
nor a multiplicity of personalities united in one with 
different characters, attributes and personalities. But 
God is one God. He is "the I am that I am." "I am God 
Almighty," sayeth the Lord. He is the One God — the 
Father of all life, and His Son is the perfect expression of 
the Father as life, and the Holy Spirit is the Holy Life of 
the Father as life manifested to the soul through Christ, 
recreating the soul and restoring the soul to the image of 
the Father as life. The Holy Spirit is Holy Life. 

Jesus never claimed to be God ; He claimed to be the 
Son of God and He was the Son of God. He was all that 
He claimed to be. He was the Son of God and possessed 
all the spiritual nature and spiritual attributes of His 



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Father. "No man has seen God at any time; the only 
begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father, He 
hath declared him" (John 16). 

"And straightway he preached Christ in the syna- 
gogues, that he is the Son of God" (Acts 9: 20). "And 
declared to be the Son of God with power, according to 
the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead" 
(Rom. 1:4). "These things saith the Son of God, who 
hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like 
fine brass" (Rev. 2: 18). "All things are delivered unto 
me of my Father; and no man knoweth the Son, but the 
Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the 
Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him" 
(Matt. 11: 27). "And the angel answered and said unto 
her, the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power 
of the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore, also that 
holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the 
Son of God" (Luke 1: 35). Thus we see the Scripture 
treats Christ as the Son of God a perfect spiritual Being 
with all the spiritual attributes and perfect spiritual na- 
ture of His Father who sent Him; this is all Christ 
claimed. He claimed not to be God, but the Son of God 
and He was tried and crucified not for claiming to be God, 
but for claiming to be the Son of God. "And the Word was 
made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, 
the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of 
grace and truth" (John 1: 14). Here the inspired writer 
declares that Christ was the Word, the reality and the 
expression of God as life, the Son of the Father, full of 
grace and truth — that is, He possessed all the spiritual 
attributes and the perfect spiritual nature of God the 
Father. That is what John meant when he said, "In 
the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God 
and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning 
with God" (John 1: 1, 2). That is, in the beginning the 
Word — Christ existed as the reality and the life of the 
Father — and was with God and possessed all the spiritual 
nature, spiritual attributes, spiritual life, spiritual light, 
and spiritual perfection of God the Father. The same was 
in the beginning with God. In the beginning the Christ — 
the Word existed as life in the Father — for Spirit is eternal, 
and before the material creation, Christ the Son was with 
the Father and in perfect harmony with the Father's 



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spiritual kingdom, spiritual laws, spiritual nature and 
possessed all the spiritual attributes of God the Father. 

The Christ was what He claimed to be, Divine, the 
Son of God. 

'Tor God so loved the world, that He gave His 
only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him 
should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God 
sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; 
but that the world through Him might be saved" (John 
3: 16, 17). "The Father loveth the Son, and hath given 
all things into His hand" (John 3: 35, 36). Here we see 
that the Scripture treats the Christ as the Son of God 
and as a separate and distinct personality from the Father; 
and that the Father committed all things into the hands 
of the Son. On the Cross Jesus cried out, "My God, 
my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Here the Son 
treats the Father as a spearate and distinct individuality. 
The Christ was God in that He possessed the spiritual 
nature and spiritual attributes and spiritual mind of 
God, His Father. And He was the Son because He was 
begotten by the Father and existed from all eternity in the 
Father and before the material creation and before the be- 
ginning of all time. He was what the Father called 
Him, His Son, and He was what He claimed to be, 
Divine and the Son of God. 

God as the only reality, life, spirit and mind in the 
universe is the source of all life. He as the Father ex- 
presses Himself through the Son as life and He manifests 
Himself through Son as the Holy Spirit, quickening the 
dead soul to life— removing the death sting of the serpent 
from the soul — and restoring the soul to the Holy Life — ■ 
to His image. But He is the One God — the all life and 
mind. 



CHAPTER XX. 

HOW TO PREVENT PHYSICAL WEAKNESS, SICK- 
NESS AND DEATH. 

The orthodox Jew who lived up to the Mosiac law 
needed no insane asylums and hospitals, and neither did 
the early Christian of real and true Christianity. He was 
taught by revelation that the lust and the carnal mind 
of the physical man meant plwsical weakness, sickness 
and death. To indulge the lust of the flesh, is not only 
to kill the spiritual life of the spiritual man — the soul — 
but to destroy the physical life of material man. The lust 
of the physical man is both physical and spiritual death. 
Thus the Mosaic law and the Prophets taught the Jews 
and the Apostles, the early Christians, that to indulge 
in the carnal mind and the lust of the material man was 
to weaken the physical man and produce physical death, 
and spiritual death to the soul. The orthodox Jew under 
the Mosaic dispensation was taught to differentiate be- 
tween the material man and the spiritual man and the 
nature of each, and the Apostles taught the same truth 
to the early Christian. He was taught that to indulge 
the law of the flesh and the carnal mind of the material 
man was to destroy the human body, the mind, and to 
produce mental and physical weakness and spiritual 
death. This accounts for the fact that the orthodox 
Jews in the noonday of their glory as a race were the 
princes of the world morally, physically, intellectually 
and spiritually. When the Jew confounded and con- 
fused the physical man with spiritual man, the physical 
birth with the spiritual birth, the carnal mind with the 
spiritual mind, God sounded aloud His protest in Israel 
through the voices of the Prophets, and when the Chris- 
tian church departed from the True Faith it lost its 
power to heal the sick. For this sin of transgression God 
punished His people. He punishes today, and has in every 

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age and will until the end of time, every spiritual child 
of His whom He created in His own image that confuses 
the physical man with the spiritual man and the carnal 
mind with the spiritual mind, and indulges the physical 
and lust senses of the material man. The Jew, every time 
he transgressed the law that differentiates the physical 
man from the spiritual man, was punished by Jehovah, 
and so has the Christian been punished by the Father 
for his sin of the flesh. 

The children of men in all generations have been 
punished and will be punished by God for indulging 
the law of lust and the flesh. When man indulges the 
carnal mind and his lustful nature, he pays the penalty 
mentally and physically and spiritually. God's punish- 
ment of His people for transgressing this law is visible 
and tangible in that He punishes not only the physical 
man, but the spiritual man also. 

By indulging the law of lust, the life forces which 
produce life in the physical man are destroyed. A man 
is as strong physically as the generative power of his 
brain which conducts the life current of God's life giving 
force over the nerve system into the material body. 
This life current to be effective, and produce material life, 
has to be conducted over the nervous system. The brain 
and the nervous system are the means of co-ordination 
between the material body of physical man and the spirit- 
ual body of the spiritual man. They are the twilight zone 
between the material man and the spiritual man, between 
matter and Spirit; by indulging in lustful thoughts and 
acts, the brain and nervous system undergoes shocks and 
transformations which weakens and destroys the power of 
the brain to generate the vital current and send the life 
giving force over the nervous system, and weakens the 
nervous system and its capacity to carry the vital force 
into the physical body of the material man. 

By indulging the carnal mind and the lust of the 
physical man, the mind, and the body of the physical 
man are weakened — sickness is produced and death is 
the result. 

Man-made theology, in attempting to spiritualize 
the natural birth and to make it holy, indorsed and 
encouraged the indulgence of the carnal mind and the 
lust of the physical man; with the result that Chris- 



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tendom is filled with imbeciles and physical wrecks. 
And the scholastic theologian points to those afflicted 
with all kinds and nature of physical and mental dis- 
eases as God's punishment of man in order to bring man 
to God. Asylums are everywhere — sanitariums and hos- 
pitals are thick and erected throughout Christendom. 
And the scholastic theologian points to these institutions 
with pride as a product of Christianity — whereas, as a 
matter of fact, they are the product of indulging in the 
lust of the flesh and the carnal mind. One generation 
hands down to the other generation and generation to 
generation mental weakness, physical ills and diseases 
produced by indulging the carnal mind and the lust of the 
physical man, until suffering and sorrow, torture and pain, 
both mentally and physically, rages throughout Chris- 
tendom. 

This is the result of the fundamental error of man- 
made theology which attempts to spiritualize the natural 
conception and birth of the physical man. 

Priestcraft and theologians teach that if the car- 
nal mind and the lust of the physical man, is united 
to the opposite sex by a priestly ceremony, that God 
sanctions the indulgence of the lust of the flesh and 
the carnal mind of the physical man. The physical 
man lives for lust and scholastic theology therefore, 
wishing to please his physical senses and gratify his 
carnal mind, has preached the doctrine, if the opposite 
sexes unite under priestly ceremonies, that God will 
bless the indulgence of their lust. 

This has been the crime of the scholastic — both 
Catholic and Protestant. The Temple of Jerusalem 
represented the body of the Christ. It was as near per- 
fect as the mind could make it. It was the wonder of 
the ages. The Spirit of the Son of God dwelt in His 
body and was manifested in the flesh without lust. God 
was supposed to be in the Temple ever present, i. e.. 
the Spirit of the Son of the living God was manifested 
in the flesh and the human body and was ever present 
in the fleshly body. Christ's material body was con- 
ceived without lust and therefore the Temple at Jerusalem 
in all its splendor was supposed to represent His body 
which possessed human attributes without lust. It 
was material and not spiritual and therefore was mortal 



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and died on the Cross. The destruction of the Temple 
of Jerusalem — the material Temple — represented the 
death of the body of the man Jesus on the Cross. The 
spiritual body of the Christ, resurrected, was life and 
that is what the Bible means when it refers to the Temple 
of the New Jerusalem. The old Jerusalem and Temple 
were destroyed because they were material — so must 
the human body decay and pass away — but the New 
Jerusalem and the Temple thereof, is spiritual and repre- 
sents man's spiritual body and liveth forever. 

Jesus' body as a meterial man was the temple of 
Christ — the spiritual man as the Son of God. Our 
human bodies conceived in lust are sinful, mortal and 
must die — yet each and every human body is a Temple of 
God in that the spiritual man — the spiritual body — 
whom God created in His own image, dwelleth therein. 
When the spiritual man lives the life of spiritual light 
and life and denies the physical senses of the material 
man, his lust and carnal mind, he is producing life; life 
within the material man which prevents sickness, physical 
weakness and prolongs the life of the material man. 
If the human family would only realize this truth and 
live up to it as taught in the Scriptures, in due course 
of time physical weakness, illness and sickness would 
be eliminated from the human body and man would 
live out his natural life and lie down and die when the 
machinery of the material man was worn out so that 
the vital current and life giving force could no longer 
generate life in the material man and send it over the 
nervous system — just as the child goes to sleep; material 
death would come as the sleep of the night. The soul 
would cease to be conscious of the unreal and come into 
the real in the absolute. The suffering and the sorrow, 
the pains and the aches, the misery and the torture with 
which the human family is afflicted come as a result of 
yielding to the law of lust and indulging the carnal mind 
which is death in its very nature, all the result of sin. 

The priesthood and scholastic theology have taught 
the human family that to indulge the lust of the flesh was 
spiritual and blessed by God and His Son, if only done 
under marriage ceremony, until they have reduced the 
human family, wherever their false teachings have gone, 
to physical weakness, sickness, and premature death. 



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To indulge the carnal mind and the law of lust is death in 
its nature, regardless of the form or condition under 
which the indulgence takes place. Scripture teaches this 
truth. The Scripture recognizes marriage as moral, 
but only as a human institution and for the purpose of 
the flesh and not the soul. Marriage is a necessity as an 
institution with the human family to regulate morals, 
to care for the offspring and to preserve order in society; 
and the Bible so recognizes it and treats it as a fleshly in- 
stitution. 

By the erroneous teachings of the scholastic theolo- 
gians, both of the Catholic and the Protestant world, 
millions upon millions of poor suffering humanity are 
in torture and physical pain, and are suffering with 
physical ills and weaknesses which they inherited from 
their ancestors, and those living will bequeath their 
physical weakness and suffering and ills to generations 
to come. 

The physical man must die as a matter of course 
he came from dust and unto dust he must return; but 
if he were taught the truth, that the spiritual man made 
in God's image is Spirit, and that the physical man con- 
ceived in lust is death in his nature, and to indulge the 
lust of the physical man is to invite physical weakness 
and disease into the human body and premature physical 
death, and that if he would live the law of Spirit and Life 
and deny the lust of the physical man, he could live 
out his days in peace with physical strength, health 
and happiness and die at ease without suffering or pain, 
disease would be decreased. The trouble with the theo- 
logical world is that its teachers teach too much error and 
advocate the erection of sanitariums and hospitals and 
asylums in which mental and physical wrecks, which have 
been produced as the result of its erroneous teachings, 
are to be kept as inmates while they pine away and die of 
suffering and disease. The human family needs more 
truth taught to them as to who the spiritual man is and 
what He is, and as to who and what the material man 
is and fewer hospitals, sanitariums and asylums erected. 
Teach the truth of Christianity and you will need no 
hospitals and asylums, for they are filled as the result of 
sin. The serpent is the father of disease, mental and 
physical. Teach man that his body is the temple of the 



228 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

living God in which dwelleth the spiritual man made 
in God's image and that this spiritual man must not 
indulge the lust of the physical man except for the propa- 
gation of the race, and in a few generations you will have 
eliminated sickness, physical and mental weakness 
from man and restored the human family to a state of 
physical and mental health and strength. Teach man the 
truth that the spiritual man within must conquer the 
physical man without, and you will have taught him the 
law of health and life. "Beloved, I wish above all 
things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even 
as thy soul prospereth" (3 John 2). God is saying to His 
children whom He created in His own image daily that 
He wishes them physical health, even as their souls 
prosper spiritually — but to possess this physical health 
that the spiritual man, His child whom He created in 
His own image, must deny the lust of the material man 
who is at enmity with His spiritual kingdom. Be not 
wise in thine own eyes; fear the Lord and depart from 
evil. It shall be health to thy navel and marrow to thy 
bone." (Prov. 3: 7, 8). Here God is telling His children 
not to think that they are wise with their physical senses 
and eyes and that they can indulge the physical man and 
his lust without pain and suffering. "But fear the Lord 
and depart from evil". That is, deny the physical man, 
his lust and his carnal mind. "And it shall be health 
to thy navel and marrow to thy bones." That is, the 
Lord is telling His children, whom He created in His own 
image, to deny the lust of the physical man and his carnal 
mind, and to live of Spirit and Truth and that they 
shall enjoy physical strength and health. 

"Know ye not ye are the Temple of God and that 
the Spirit of God dwelleth within you" (Cor. 1:3-16). 
The child of God created in God's image has no right to 
defile that temple by indulging the lust of the physical 
man. He should light that temple with spiritual life 
and light and conquer the carnal mind and the lust of 
the physical man by the power of his spiritual life. To 
indulge in the passions and the lust of the natural man, 
is to invite darkness and death into that temple and to 
bequeath sickness, suffering, darkness and premature 
death to generations unborn. 

Oh, that the men, who assume to be the spiritual 
teachers of God's children, could understand this truth 



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and would teach it in its purity to God's children who are 
wandering in darkness and error until mental and phy- 
sical weakness and suffering should be forever destroyed 
as a part of the inheritance of the human family. 

As long as sin exists the race will propagate in the 
flesh, and die as the result of sin, but by living the Christ 
life, while the soul is in the body, we can overcome sin 
sufficiently to heal the sick, and let the soul pass from the 
mortal body without pain to the senses. 



CHAPTER XXI. 
HEAVEN AND HELL. 

Heaven and Hell are conditions — the mental state of 
the soul. They are spiritual states rather than places. 
They are not physical and material — but immaterial 
and spiritual. The physical hell preached during the 
ages by scholastic theology, had its origin in the carnal 
mind of the physical man and the physical senses of the 
material man. The cause of its origin was selfishness and 
revenge. The physical man filled with hatred and malice 
wanted his enemies punished and in the carnal mind of 
the material man, he created a physical hell in which to 
burn the other fellow — his enemy; but not to go there 
himself. He likewise created a physical heaven in the 
imagination of his natural mind where he could gratify 
his physical senses and the appetities of the physical man 
throughout eternity. 

This physical and material heaven and hell was 
gratifying to the physical senses and natural mind of 
the material man; scholastic theology gave him what he 
wanted and desired for value received. But this is not 
the heaven and hell of the Bible. The heaven and hell 
of the Bible are realities, but immaterial. 
HEAVEN. 

Heaven is the dwelling place of God and God is 
everywhere. Heaven is the child whom God created in 
His own image, partaking of all the spiritual attributes 
of God's spiritual kingdom and spiritual nature. It is 
the state of the soul returned to the Garden of 
Eden and reflects God, the Father, as spirit and life, and 
is unconscious of the death sting of the serpent. Heaven 
is the child of God created in His image, redeemed from 
the lustful nature and carnal mind of the physical man — 
the serpent — and his spiritual state is wherever God 
reigneth and rules; and God lives and rules throughout 

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all space. " Hearken, thou to the supplication of thy 
servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray 
towards this place ; and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling 
place; and when thou hearest forgive" (Kings 1: 8-30). 
Here we are told that Heaven is the dwelling place of 
God; and God liveth and dwelleth in all space. Heaven 
is therefore a condition and not a place— a spiritual condi- 
tion, and not a physical habitation. "Thus sayeth the 
Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth my foot- 
stool; where is the house that ye build unto me? and 
where is the place of my rest?" (Isaiah 66: 1). Heaven 
is God's kingdom — spiritual kingdom — and not a mater- 
ial place. His throne is His spiritual Power, Light, and 
Life, and not a material place from which He rules. 
From this throne (this source of Light and Life) He giveth 
Light and Life to His spiritual children. "After this 
manner, therefore, pray ye, our Father which art in 
Heaven, Hallowed by thy name" (Matt. 6:9). Here the 
Master teaches us that Heaven is the dwelling place of 
God, and that such dwelling place fills all space and all 
time which God filleth with His Light, His Life and His 
Glory. For His spiritual children to enter into this spirit- 
ual kingdom, is Heaven. "Howbeit the most high 
dwelleth not in the temples made with hands, as sayeth 
the prophets, Heaven is my throne, and earth is my 
footstool; what house will ye build me? sayeth the Lord; 
or, what is the place of my rest?" (Acts 7: 48, 49). Here 
we are taught that God dwelleth not in temples builded 
by hands or in material things; that the Temple at Jeru- 
salem was simply a shadow of the reality, God's Temple 
is His spiritual kingdom and therein dwelleth and liveth 
His spiritual children. Within this Temple is the real — 
spirit and life — the unreal, matter and death cannot enter 
there. The spiritual state which creates Heaven for God's 
spiritual children is the absolute destruction and elimina- 
tion from the spiritual nature of the spiritual man, the 
attributes of the material man, which the spiritual man 
took into his spiritual consciousness when conceived by 
the law of lust and while the spiritual man dwelt in the 
body of the material man. The real must become dead 
to the unreal to know God. The elimination of the attri- 
butes of the carnal mind and lust of the natural man from 
the consciousness of the spiritual man, is the casting out 



232 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

of devils, that is casting out the lust and carnal mind of 
the natural man from the spiritual nature of the spiritual 
man; and this is the Atonement. "And the Lord God 
said unto the serpent." Because thou hast done this, 
thou art cursed above all cattle and every beast of the field, 
and upon thy belly shalt thou go and dust shalt thou eat 
all the days of thy life; and I will put enmity between 
thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed 
and it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his 
heel" (Genesis 3: 14, 15). Here "the serpent" represents 
the lust of the natural man and "his seed" represents the 
generation of the physical man and carnal thoughts; 
the seed of the woman represents Christ, who was to 
be conceived without natural father and without lust and 
was to be the High Priest of all of God's spiritual children 
— and, of course, likewise represents the spiritual man, 
and spiritual thoughts. God said that He would put 
enmity between the seed of the serpent and the seed of 
the woman; that is, He would put enmity between the 
natural man with his lust and carnal mind, and the 
spiritual man, whom He created in His own image; 
between the carnal and spiritual thoughts of man; and the 
Christ who was to be conceived of a woman without lust 
was to be the High Priest of the spiritual man. That 
enmity has been going on ever since the first man and will 
go on through all time and through all eternity. The 
spiritual man who God created in His own image and who 
takes into his spiritual consciousness the spiritual attri- 
butes of the Christ by the law of the atonement, elimi- 
nates from his spiritual nature all the attributes of lust 
and the carnal nature of the natural man and enters into 
spiritual fellowship with the Father — he enters into 
Heaven by the power of the Christ, the soul that cast out 
every thought and desire of the flesh is Heaven. 

The spiritual man, who retains in his spiritual 
consciousness and spiritual nature the attributes and 
nature of the natural ma^. is not in fellowship with 
God's spiritual nature and kingdom — he is in Hell. 
He has not been saved by the law of Atonement — the 
nature of the natural man has not been destroyed in and 
eliminated from his spiritual consciousness — the soul. 
Here we see that Heaven and Hell had their origin in the 
birth of the natural and spiritual man and that they 



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are the opposite of each other in their natures, yet scholastic 
theology has through the ages, been teaching the people 
that marriage is holy and the natural birth spiritual, and 
thereby gratifying the taste, the desire and the lust of the 
natural man. 

Heaven and Hell are personal states. They are per- 
sonal to every child whom God has created. The re- 
moving from the soul the attributes of lust is the power 
of the Christ and the Atonement and every man must 
apply it personally for himself in order to enter heaven. 
No man nor priest can offer up sacrifice to save another. 
The Christ made the sacrifice, paid the penalty for the 
law of lust — the sting of the serpent, when Jesus died 
unto the flesh. He conquered the power of the natural 
man and destroyed the rule of the material man — the 
serpent — once for all when He died upon the Cross; and 
every child of God, in order to enter into spiritual fellow- 
ship with Christ and the Father, must apply the power 
of the Christ's spiritual triumph over the material man for 
himself and to his own spiritual consciousness — soul. 

Heaven begins here. ''Jesus said: The Kingdom of 
Heaven is within you." As we take His spiritual attri- 
butes into our spiritual consciousness and thereby elim- 
inate from our spiritual natures the nature of the natural 
man and destroy the power of the natural man within 
our spiritual natures, we enter into the kingdom of heaven. 
The kingdom of heaven begins here and continues 
through all eternity to every child of God who partakes 
of the Life of the Christ. 

The Jewish priesthood had to be perfect physi- 
cally — no cripple could be a priest under the Mosaic 
law. The perfect physical body required to be a priest 
under the Mosaic dispensation was a figure and sym- 
bol of a spiritual truth. The perfect physical body 
required in order to be a priest had no saving power 
within itself, but represented the perfect spiritual body 
of the Christ and the spiritual bodies of all of God's 
children who take of the spiritual nature of the Christ 
and enter into spiritual fellowship with God and the 
Christ in the life to come. There the priesthood will be 
perfect — complete life of the Father to the soul. The 
perfect physical body required was a figure of what the 
spiritual body will be and represents every child of God 



234 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

who partakes of the spiritual nature of the Christ and the 
resurrection for all will possess a spiritual body in full 
fellowship with God and His Son. Heaven is eternal 
development spiritually and begins here and continues 
through all eternity. The spiritual child of God created 
in God's image cannot violate God's spiritual laws and 
take into his spiritual consciousness the nature of the 
natural man without paying the penalty. The soul cannot 
think carnal thoughts without spiritual death. As the 
nature of the natural man enters the soul the life of the 
spiritual man is driven out. The law of spiritual compensa- 
tion is just. The spiritual child of God cannot entertain the 
thoughts and nature of the natural man and grow spirit- 
ually and develop in the spiritual kingdom. The power 
of the Atonement will eliminate the nature of the natural 
man from the life of the spiritual man, but the child of 
God must apply the power of the Atonement with its 
saving influence to his personal spiritual nature. 

Heaven is the spiritual Life and spiritual Light. 
Heaven is God's children whom He created in His own 
image entering into full fellowship with God and His 
spiritual nature and driving out from their spiritual 
natures the power of the natural man by the law and the 
influence of the Atonement. Jesus died that the spiritual 
man might live; and destroyed the power of the natural 
man over the life of the spiritual man and Heaven is 
the spiritual man applying personally this power of the 
Atonement to his spiritual nature and life — that is, spir- 
itual light, spiritual life; — this is Heaven. 

Heaven is the seed of the woman, spoken of in 
Genesis 3: 15, destroying the power of the seed of the 
serpent mentioned in the same verse of Scripture in 
the spiritual consciousness of the spiritual man whom 
God created in His own image — the soul. The seed of 
the serpent mentioned in Genesis 3: 15 being the lustful 
nature of the physical man who is conceived in lust, and 
the seed of the woman being the Christ, who was con- 
ceived without a natural father and by His spiritual nature 
and power triumphed over the flesh and by dying in His 
fleshly nature on the Cross atoned for the sin of the nat- 
ural man, which is the seed of the serpent, and which 
darkens the spiritual light of the man whom God made 
in His own image. In this verse of Scripture, Genesis 



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3: 15, the mystery of the dual creation is locked up. Its 
explanation is the key to the Bible and the plan of savla- 
tion. Heaven is the complete Life and reconciliation of the 
child of God whom He created in His own image — recon- 
ciliation and restoring this man whom God created in His 
own image back to full fellowship with God and God's 
kingdom by virtue of the Atonement, and the seed of the 
woman, the Christ destroying the seed of the serpent, 
the natural man, in the consciousness of the spiritual 
man — the soul. Heaven is the regeneration of the soul 
by the Spirit so it can see God face to face and know God 
as the only reality, spirit and life. Heaven is the soul 
again in the Garden of Eden. 

HELL. 

"Hell" means "hades" and "hades" means "the 
grave" and "the grave" means "death." The grave 
means death to the physical man ; it is where the physical 
man rests when he returns to dust. Likewise, hell is the 
state, and not the place, of the spiritual man, when the 
Spirit leaves the body of the physical man. Hell is like 
Heaven — it is a mental state or a condition, rather than a 
place. In its nature, however, this mental state or condi- 
tion is the opposite of Heaven. The Spirit of the spiritual 
man is in a condition, when in hell, opposite to the spir- 
itual man when in Heaven. The Spirit that is in hell has 
not had the carnal nature of the seed of the serpent de- 
stroyed by the power of the seed of the woman referred 
to in Genesis 3 : 15. The spiritual man — the soul — in hell 
has within his spiritual consciousness the nature and the 
attributes of the seed of the serpent. The serpent, the 
carnal man, has not been destroyed in his spiritual con- 
sciousness — the soul, by the power of the seed of the woman, 
the Christ and His Atonement mentioned in Genesis 
3: 15. "Besides all this, between us and you there is a 
great gulf fixed; so that they which would pass from 
hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that 
would come from thence" (Luke 16: 26). Here, Lazarus 
was in one spiritual state and the rich man was in another 
spiritual state. "And in Hell he lifted up his eyes, being 
in torment, and seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus in 
his bosom" (Luke 16: 23). Lazarus was in a state and 
condition of spiritual life, in the image of God; Abraham 



236 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

here being the father of the house of Israel, represents 
God's spiritual kingdom, every soul that has been born 
again, and Lazarus was in this spiritual kingdom. The 
seed of the serpent mentioned in Genesis 3: 15; i. e., the 
lust and nature of the natural man, had been destroyed 
in his spiritual consciousness — the soul — by the seed of 
the woman — by Christ's Atonement. But the seed of 
the serpent — that is, the natural man — his carnal mind 
and lustful nature, still ruled and lived in the conscious- 
ness — soul — of the rich man; this darkness and death 
of the material man had not been destroyed in the con- 
sciousness — soul — of the rich man by the seed of the 
woman — that is, by Christ and His Atonement. 

The cause of all the chanting of all of the priests of 
all religions of all ages is locked up in Genesis 3: 15 — the 
war between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the 
woman — the conflict between the natural man conceived 
in lust and the spiritual man made in God's image, and 
the Christ born without a natural father — who is the 
Chief Priest of the spiritual man. All the tears, sorrows 
and physical suffering of man is produced by the virtue 
of the truth as revealed in said verse of Scripture. All 
the tears of all the ages for spiritual Light is revealed in 
said passage of Scripture. 

The mystery of the Bible is contained therein, and 
the truth therein contained, when correctly interpreted, 
explains the mystery of the Bible — God's revelation to 
man and the plan salvation; explains Heaven and hell 
and their natures. 

"And death and hell were cast into a lake of fire. 
This is the second death" (Rev. 20: 14). "Second death" 
here mentioned is spiritual death; it is hell. The first 
death is the death of the natural man; the sting of the 
serpent that produces disolution is the first death, and 
the second death is the death sting of the serpent to the 
soul in Spirit Life. 

This seed of the serpent is "The Dragon" John 
saw in Revelation, that is, the power of the natural 
man with his lustful nature and carnal mind ruling 
in the spiritual consciousness— the soul — of the spiritual 
man who had not had the power of the seed of the serpent, 
the lust and carnal nature of the natural man, destroyed 
in his spiritual consciousness — the soul — by the seed of 



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the woman; that is, by the Christ and His atoning power. 
We have this seed of the serpent in Genesis 3: 15 — he is 
all through the Bible and he is 'The Dragon" that John 
saw in his vision described in Revelation. He is the 
natural man with his lustful nature and carnal mind 
ruling in the consciousness — soul — of the spiritual man 
who has not been saved by the seed of the woman — by 
the Christ and His atoning power. 

Hell begins here in the consciousness — soul — of the 
spiritual man and continues through all eternity unless 
the seed of the serpent — the lust and carnal nature of the 
natural man — is destroyed in the consciousness— the soul 
— of the spiritual man by the seed of the woman — by 
the Christ and His atoning power. In proportion as the 
spiritual man takes into his spiritual consciousness — soul — 
the seed of the serpent — the lust and carnal nature of the 
natural man — he is going into hell. The law of the anti- 
spiritual nature of the seed of the serpent is just in its 
compensation — the more of the nature of the natural 
man the spiritual man takes into his spiritual conscious- 
ness — the soul — the deeper he is in hell. Hell is darkness 
and spiritual death. God is the only Light and Life, and 
Hell is the soul being banished from His presence as life 
by the death sting of the serpent, which is outer darkness 
and death to the soul. Hell is the Absence of God as the 
only reality, light and life, from the soul. This is spiritual 
death. 



CHAPTER XXII. 

SIN. 

"And the eyes of them both were opened and they 
knew that they were naked and they sewed fig leaves 
together and made themselves aprons." (Genesis 3: 7.) 
This is the first account that we have of the soul being 
conscious of sin — spiritual death. It is the first record 
we have of the soul having been banished from the 
Presence of God as Life, and failing to reflect God as Life. 
It is the beginning of sin, in this creation, but not the 
origin of sin. Sin had its origin before the solar system 
was created and before man was made in God's image. 
Sin originated by the angels rebelling and they were 
cast out of God's presence as life. Sin came into the 
consciousness of the soul through sex worship, by the lust 
of the flesh. 'Tor out of the heart proceedeth evil 
thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false 
witnesses, blasphemies; these are the things which defile 
the man (Matt. 15: 19-20). Sin is within the sex, the 
lust and sex senses; sin is sex-worship — idolatry. Sin is 
the Absence of God in the soul as the only life. It is the 
soul banished from God's presence as life. The soul has 
no inherent life within itself. It only reflects God as life, 
it is in outer darkness; it is lost, when the soul ceases to 
reflect God as life. The lust senses of the flesh is the veil 
that separates the soul from God. All mortal conception 
and propagation is through sin; the soul is in outer dark- 
ness and separated from God in consciousness, thought 
and mind when mortal conception and propagation takes 
place. The sex relations between the sexes by which 
mortal propagation is conceived is the essence of In- 
sanity and spiritual death. All of this creation is sin. 
There is not anything here but sin. Sex controls all of 
this creation and sex- worship is the religion of this creation. 
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the solar system, the vegetable kingdom, and the animal 
kingdom, and sex worship is the god of this creation. 
All mortal conception and propagation is through sex 
worship. 

"Why do ye not understand my speech? Even be- 
cause ye cannot hear my word. Ye of your father the 
Devil and the lust of your father ye will do. He was a 
murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth, 
because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh 
a lie, he speaketh of his own, for he is a liar and the 
father of it" (John 8: 43-44.) God is truth, reality and 
life, and all of God's children — the spiritual beings whom 
He made in His image and who reflect God as life, under- 
stand the Word, are conscious of the realization of God 
as life, but the children of darkness do not understand the 
Word. They are not conscious of God as life and do not 
reflect Him as life, they are the children of the flesh, and 
reflect darkness and death. The soul conceived by lust 
is in outer darkness. There is a veil between that soul 
and God — the veil of the lust and sex senses of the flesh, 
which prevents that soul from seeing God and being 
conscious of God as life, and reflecting God as life — spirit. 
Such a soul must be born again — be born of the spirit, to 
see God and to be conscious of God as life, and to reflect 
God as life. Such a soul must be born of the spirit in 
order to become a child of God — of life. There is a differ- 
ence between mortal conception here in the flesh and the 
creation that God made. God made man in His image 
and he retained that image until he fell — and mortal 
conception separates the soul from God, constitutes a 
veil between God and the soul. Mortal conception and 
propagation is of the flesh — the serpent — the mind of the 
fallen angels and is death. When man ceases to sin, he 
will cease to propagate and he will cease to die, but as 
long as man continues to sin he will continue to propa- 
gate, and spiritual death will be the result; and a new 
spiritual birth will be necessary in order for the soul to 
see God (Matt. 13: 33); (1 John 3: 8). The angels abode 
not in truth — they abode not in the image of God and 
ceased to reflect God as life; and were cast out of God's 
Presence as life and all of this creation is propagated 
through their minds, which is sin and death. God is the 
Only Life and when the angels who reflected His life, 



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rebelled against Him as life, they were cast out of His 
presence as life into outer darkness and death (John 8: 44). 
(Jude 6); (Romans 5: 12); (John 3: 8). "And the man that 
God made in His image yielded to the mind of these fallen 
beings which is death, and all mortal conception and 
propagation is insanity and death (Gen. 3:5); (Job 
15:14); (Job 25: 24); (Ps. 51: 5); (Romans 3:9); (Gal. 
3: 22.) And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and 
begot a son in his own likeness, and after his image, and 
called his name Seth (Gen. 5:3). The man begotten by 
mortal man is the image of death. The man made in 
God's image is life and reflects God as life, but he lost 
the image of God as life when he yielded to the serpent; 
and all conception and propagation in the flesh reflects 
the image of the flesh — death. What is a man that he 
should be clean? And he that is born of a woman that he 
should be righteous? (Job 15: 14). How then, can a man 
be justified with God? Or how can he be clean that is 
born of a woman? (Job 25: 4). Behold I was shapen in 
iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me (Ps. 55: 5). 
Also see Romans 3:9; Gal 3: 23. Here we see that all 
mortal conception and propagation is through sin. The 
Absence of God as life in the soul; that man is conceived 
in the flesh by the power of darkness and death. There is 
not anything spiritual about the mortal conception and 
propagation and Ecclesiastical dogmas cannot make 
mortal conception and propagation spiritual. "And 
Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world 
marry and are given in marriage, but they which shall 
be accounted worthy to obtain that world and the resur- 
rection from the dead neither marry nor are given in 
marriage. Neither can they die any more. For they are 
equal unto the angels and are children of God, being the 
children of the resurrection. Now that the dead are raised, 
even Moses shewed at the bush when he called the Lord 
the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God 
of Jacob. For he is not the God of the dead but of the 
living; for all live unto him (Luke 20: 34-38). Also see 
Mark 12:26; Matt. 22:29; Acts 7:32; Heb. 11:16. 
The children of this world are the children of the flesh 
and they are the children of death. Every soul that is 
conceived in the flesh, is conceived by the power of dark- 
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image of God as life and fails to reflect God as life and 
is in outer darkness— is spiritually dead. The conseiosu- 
ness of the sex and lust senses of the flesh is flowing into 
that soul as carnal thoughts and separating it from God 
as life — the veil of the flesh which is between the soul 
and God and prevents the soul from seeing God and real- 
izing God as life is the lust and sex senses. The marrying 
and giving in marriage is of the flesh — the serpent. When 
the soul is resurrected to life — when it is annointed — 
receives the gift of God as life, it reflects God as life and 
is a child of God; and neither marries nor is given in 
marriage. Neither does it propagate in the flesh. Marry- 
ing and propagating in the flesh is of the serpent — the 
carnal and the flesh — through the Spiritual death of the 
soul. The soul that is restored to life does not marry in 
the flesh and propagate in the flesh. It has been resurrected 
to life and is a child of God, and the children of God have 
overcome the flesh. Abraham and Isaac and Jacob 
were resurrected to life from the power of the death sting 
of the serpent, and reflected God as life. The resurrec- 
tion is the restoration of the soul to life— the soul that is 
thus resurrected to life reflects God as life and has over- 
come the mind of the serpent and the power of the flesh. 
And it has no desire to partake of the flesh and to propa- 
gate and conceive in the flesh. Such a soul worships God 
as life and not the sex senses as death. God is not the 
God of the dead— of the souls that are lost and dead unto 
the mind of the serpent and that are reflecting darkness 
and death, but He is the God of the living — the God of 
the souls that have overcome the mind of the serpent — 
the darkness and death of the flesh and have been restored 
to life; and that reflect Him as life and as the Father of 
spirits and life. All souls that are in the image of God, 
that have been resurrected, restored to the image of God, 
and reflect Him as life have overcome the mind of the 
serpent and have no desire to indulge in lust of the flesh 
and to propagate in the flesh. They are Christians — 
they have been annointed — they have received the gift 
of God as life and have no desire to partake of the darkness 
and death. They have been saved by Grace — God's 
gift of life. All mortal propagation is of and through 
sin — the power of the flesh, darkness and death. 

Jesus was the only conception that was ever conceived 
other than by the power of the flesh. All other concep- 



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tion is of the flesh and death. He was conceived by the 
power of the Holy Spirit, by the gift of God as life and hav- 
ing been conceived by God as life, he lived the law of 
truth and life and overcame death. He that belie veth on 
Him is not condemned, but he that believeth not is con- 
demned already; because He is not believed in the name 
of the only Begotten Son of God. (John 3: 18). "God so 
loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son 
that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but 
have everlasting life" (John 3: 16). And no man has as- 
cended up to heaven but he that came from heaven. Even 
the son of man which is in heaven. That Jesus is the only 
Begotten Son of the Father, also see Luke 9:66; John 
5:45; John 12:47; 1 John 4:14; 4:15, Luke 1:26:35; 
Matt. 1:18; Matt. 2:45; Isaiah 7:14. Jesus was the 
only Begotten Son of the Father. He is the only life 
that was ever conceived in the flesh by the power of life. 
The Holy Ghost came upon Mary, that is God as life 
came upon her, and she received the Gift of God as life, 
and this gift of God as life was the spiritual conception 
of Jesus the Christ. And He was life and He is life be- 
cause He was conceived by the power of life and reflects 
God the Father as the only true life. He lived the truth 
of his Father as life and therefore had power over death. 
Man is conceived in sin, in the Absence of God as light 
and life. And therefore must be born of the spirit to 
come into the consciousness of God as life and to reflect 
God as life. Without this new birth and the recreation 
of the spirit — the gift of God as life — the soul is separated 
from God as life by the veil — the power of the serpent — 
sin — the sex and lust senses. 

There is a difference between made and begotten. 
The Christ was always in the bosom of the Father, but 
He was begotten by the power of the Father as life 
in the flesh, as the man Jesus — the Christ was never made 
— He is eternal — but He was begotten in flesh as the man 
Jesus by the Father as the only life. Man was made by 
the Father and in the Father's image, but through sin, 
Man is begotten in the flesh, and by the power of sin; 
and through sin and the mortal conception man lost the 
image of the Father as life. Man was spiritual and re- 
flected God as life, but having been begotten in flesh 
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"Whosoever he be that doth rebel against Thy com- 
mandments and will not harken unto thy word in all 
that thou commandest him, shall be put to death. Only 
be strong and of good courage'' (Josh. 1: 18). Here we 
have sin defined. The Lord was speaking to Joshua who 
was the successor of Moses. Joshua was the symbol of 
the Savior — the Deliverer. Joshua was symbolic of the 
deliverance of soul from bondage to the flesh and the re- 
turn of the soul to the presence of God where the soul 
reflects God as life. Joshua was given the commandment 
of God to speak unto the children of Israel. He was the 
voice of God — the Savior — the symbol of life — the gift 
of God. Sin here is defined as rebellion, rebellion against 
God— rebellion against life which is death. This rebellion 
is in the sex — the carnal of the natural man. The carnal 
man is in the rebellion against God. This rebellion is 
sex — sex worship. The children of Israel were continually 
worshiping idols — commiting sin, rebelling against God 
and worshiping the sex senses of the mortal creation instead 
of worshiping God as life. Sin had its origin in rebellion 
and is death. And this mortal creation is sin and is gov- 
erned by sex and sex is its god and the children of it 
worship sex as their god. Evil is sin, and evil is in the 
sex and lust senses. Evil is sex worship. Evil and sin 
is one. and the same thing — sex worship, darkness and 
death. It does not exist in the consciousness of the soul 
that has been born of the spirit and has returned to the 
presence of God as life and reflects God as life. In the 
presence of God there is life. There is no sin, evil and 
death in the presence of God. The soul that is in the pres- 
ence of God reflects God as life, the soul that is banished 
from the presence of God as life is in outer darkness and 
worships the lust and sex senses — such soul commits evil, 
lusts after the flesh, and is dead in trespasses and sin. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 
IDOLATRY. 

Idolatry is the religion of the senses. It is sex wor- 
ship. The first idolatry was in the Garden of Eden, when 
Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit — indulged in 
the lust of the flesh. This was the beginning of sex wor- 
ship. It was the origin of the plurality of gods. They 
became as gods knowing good and evil — conscious of 
Spirit and the senses — the real and unreal — life and death. 
There is but one reality in the universe and that is Txod. 
There is only one mind and life and that is God. Man has 
no inherent, life within himself, but simply reflects God 
who is life, and when man became conscious of the senses 
the veil of the lust and sex senses, which constitute the 
chasm that separates man from God, he no longer re- 
flected God as life but the consciousness of the senses and 
death. God being the all reality of the universe, idolatry 
is nothingness — it is error — the absence of the real. 
God being the only light and life of the universe, idolatry 
is the absence of God as light and life in the consciousness 
of the soul. It is the absence of the real. It is the worship 
of the unreal — nothingness — darkness and death. It is 
sex worship. See Deut. 7: 15; Deut. 7: 16; Deut. 4: 5, 6 
Deut. 13:6-7; Exodus 25:1-17; Exodus 22:18-20 
Exodus 23: 13; Lee. 26: 1-7; Deut. 5: 6-7; Deut. 11: 16 
Deut. 17: 2-5; Deut. 18: 9-13; Psalms 97: 6-1 ;0 Jer. 2: 11 
1 Cor. 10: 1-14; 1 John 4: 17-21. 

All sin is in idolatry — sex worship. The man whom 
God created in His image was driven out of the Garden 
of Eden — out of the presence of God into the conscious- 
ness of the senses. He ceased to reflect God as life and to 
bear the image of God as life but went into the conscious- 
ness of the senses and worshiped the lusts of the flesh, — 
darkness and death. God told him when he ceased to 
worship God as life and to reflect God as life, and partook 

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of the senses of the flesh that he should die. When man 
disobeyed the commands of God and failed to multiply 
and increase spiritually and bring forth spiritual fruition 
and subdue the flesh, but yielded to the flesh, and indulged 
the lusts of the flesh, he became an idolator — a sex wor- 
shiper and God turned him out of His presence into the 
consciousness of the senses and told him that he was taken 
from dust and unto dust he should return. The soul made 
in God's image then became conscious of the senses and 
died spiritually. All mortal propagation is idolatry. All 
mortal propagation is through idolatry — it is sex worship. 
For this cause, God told man that he should cleave unto 
the woman and told the woman He would multiply her 
sorrow and conception and in sorrow she should bring 
forth children. There was no mortal propagation until 
man became an idolater — a sex worshiper. All affection 
between the sexes is idolatry — it is of the mortal mind and 
not of the Divine Mind. The Master said that only the 
' 'children of this world marry and are given in marriage" — 
only the carnal within man marries and is given in mar- 
riage. The man that God made in His image is spiritual. 
He never marries nor is given in marriage, neither does 
he propagate in the flesh. He is a child of God and there 
is no sex in Spirit life. The Master said the children of 
"that world and those who are accounted worthy of the 
resurrection neither marry nor are given in marriage 
but that they are equal unto the angels, and the chil- 
dren of God." The man-made in God's image when he 
is resurrected from the death of the senses and restored to 
life and reflects God as life neither marries nor is given 
in marriage and neither does he propagate. All mortal 
conception and propagation is idolatry and sex worship. 
It is of the flesh and not of the soul. Therefore all mortal 
conception must return to dust as it has death inherently 
in it — all inherent life is in Mind and Spirit. All sickness, 
disease and death are within the mortal mind, within the 
carnal consciousness and are the result of idolatry — sex 
worship. The Master at thirty years of age overcame 
the consciousness of the senses of the flesh — overcame 
all idolatry and sex worship and therefore had complete 
power over disease, sickness and death and restored health 
to the sick, sight to the blind and raised the dead. 

The truly circumcised of heart are those who have 
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These are the children of God and worship God as life. 
The uncircumcised of heart worship the lust of the flesh 
as death — idolatry— sex worship. "I am the Lord thy 
God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt 
from the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other 
gods before Me" (Deut, 5: 6-7). Egypt was the land of 
idolatry — the land of sex worship — the bull was the 
symbol of their god. The bull was the most sensual of 
the animal kingdom and therefore selected as the symbol 
of the Egyptian sex worship. They worshiped the sensual. 
The delivering of the children of Israel from Egypt was 
symbolic of the soul being delivered from the bondage of 
the senses — from idolatry and sex worship — from the god of 
the senses. God therefore said to the children of Israel 
that they should not have the gods of the senses before 
them in consciousness; but should worship Him as the only 
true God and as life; and He is thus speaking to every soul 
and has thus spoken to every soul that He created in 
His image — not to worship the senses — idolatry, but to 
worship Him as the only true God and life. Israel means 
the spiritual man whom God created in His image that 
has been resurrected from the death of the senses to life 
and who reflects God as life. Israel is the seed of Abraham, 
Isaac and Jacob and God is the God of the living and not 
of the dead. He is the God of the soul that has been resur- 
rected from the sleep of the senses to life and that reflects 
Him, the Father, as life. Paul understood this law of 
life and death — of the worship of idolatry — the lust of 
the flesh — the senses, and the worship of God as life and 
he so declared, "Wherefore my dearly beloved flee from 
idolatry. I speak as a wise man. Judge ye what I say." 
(1 Cor. 10: 14-15). And the Apostle John — the most 
spiritual of all the Apostles, understood this law of life 
and death when he said, "This is the true God and 
eternal life, little children, keep yourselves free from 
idols" (1 John 5: 20-21). He who has overcome idolatry — 
the lust of the flesh — the religion of the senses — sex wor- 
ship — has eternal life for he worships God, the only true 
life, and as God is life eternal, His children shall have 
life eternal. There is no life for the soul except as we 
overcome idolatry— the religion of the senses. The true 
Christian is he who has overcome idolatry — the lust of 
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at thirty years of age overcame idolatry and by overcom- 
ing idolatry — sex worship — the religion of the senses — He 
was Anointed — received the gift of His Father as life 
and became the Christ. If we would become Christians, 
we must walk in his footsteps of truth — overcome idol- 
atry — the lusts of the flesh — the religion of the senses — 
sex worship and receive the gift of God as life; as we 
become Anointed; we receive the gift of God as life and 
become children of the Father. When we shall have 
completely overcome idolatry we shall become children 
of the heavenly kingdom — life — and be equal unto the 
angels, being the children of God. 

Witchcraft, soothsaying, divination, star-gazing and 
whoredom is all idolatry — the religion of the senses. Sex 
controls the solar system as well as the vegetable and ani- 
mal kingdom, hence the idolaters in all ages have wor- 
shiped the solar system as well as the lust of the flesh. 
The soothsayer, the astrologer and the adulterer are one 
and the same spiritually and are synonymous terms 
in the Holy Scriptures and are used to convey the 
idea of idolatry — sex worship. All of this is unreal — 
not of the spirit — therefore the heavens and the earth — 
the solar system — shall pass away as well as mortal man, 
for all material creation is of sex and is controlled by sex 
and the idolater is he who worships the sex of the ma- 
terial creation, both in the solar system and in the animal 
kingdom. The law of attraction and repulsion governs the 
solar system, and this is the law of sex. 

When man, whom God made in His image, shall 
cease to be an idolater — to worship the sex of the mortal 
creation— but shall return to the Garden of Eden and 
worship God as Spirit and the only life, the unreal shall 
pass away and the real will be realized in consciousness 
and man shall again reflect God as his Father and be the 
child of God. 

If we would know God as Spirit and Life, we must 
overcome sex worship — idolatry — the lust of the flesh — 
the religion of the senses and come into the conscious 
realization of God as life and worship Him as life. As 
we cease to be idolaters, we become children of the 
Father. As we overcome idolatry we have life and are 
conscious of God the Father as life. Idol is from the 
Greek word, meaning that which is seen by the senses 



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and which is tangible to the senses, and which is unreal 
in substance. That which is adored by the senses, but 
which is unreal and nothingness in substance. It is that 
which the senses worship — the mortal mind as carnal 
mind. It is the lust and sex senses. As the sex and lust 
senses mature the carnal mind matures — the lust of the 
flesh. As the sex and lust senses die the carnal mind dies. 
Hence a man is once a man and twice a child. The sex 
and lust senses manifested in the consciousness of the 
soul is spiritual death. It was when the soul came into 
the consciousness of the sex and lust senses that it knew 
good and evil, and was turned out of the Garden of 
Eden — out of the presence of God — as spirit and life — 
and worshiped the senses of the flesh, which is spiritual 
death — idolatry. Grace is the gift of God as life — the 
irnpartation of the divine mind to the soul, restoring it 
to life and the image of God as spirit and life. In that 
state of life the soul does not worship the senses of the 
flesh, but God as spirit — the divine mind. This is the 
resurrection — the restoration of the soul to life — to the 
image of God as spirit — from the worship of the sex and 
lust senses as spiritual death. 



CHAPTER XXIV. 

THE SERPENT. 

Death is inherent in the serpent. The serpent is 
the absence of God as the all life and mind from the 
soul. All sickness and disease, crime and insanity are 
within the serpent — the sex and lust senses — the carnal 
mind. God told the woman she must not eat of the 
fruit — the knowledge of good and evil — not to partake 
of the serpent — the sensual — lest she die (Gen. 3:21). 
It was God — the all life, mind and spirit — the all holy 
and perfect life of the universe and not the Lord God — 
the absence of life from the soul— that told the woman 
she must not partake of the serpent lest she die. The 
serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which 
the Lord God had made, and the serpent said unto the 
woman, "Yea, God hath said ye shall not eat of every 
tree of the garden" (Gen. 3: 1). It was the Lord God who 
made the serpent. The absence of God as life from the 
soul, created the serpent — the consciousness of death 
within the soul. There is a difference between God and 
the Lord God in the story of the account of creation, 
the Garden of Eden and the Fall, as recorded in Genesis. 
God is used to convey the idea of the All Intelligence, 
life, mind and spirit of the universe, as present and 
expressed as life. The Lord God is used to convey the 
idea of the absence of God as the all life and mind of the 
universe from the soul, death. The presence of God as the 
all life is — life — reality. The absence of God as the all 
life is — death — nothing. The serpent was cursed by the 
Lord God — the absence of God from the soul as life, 
death" (Gen. 3: 14). And the Lord God told the woman 
that He would greatly multiply her sorrow and concep- 
tion; in sorrow she should bring forth children. There 
was no mortal conception nor propagation until after 
Adam and Eve had committed sin, indulged the sensual. 

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The carnal desire to conceive and to bring forth children 
exists in the Soul, in the absence of God as the all life 
of the universe from the soul. It is sex worship. The 
desire to conceive and to bring forth children (the cor- 
poral man) and to be subject to the male, does not exist 
in the soul where the spirit and life of God is present as 
the All Holy Life — when the Christ mind is present in 
the soul. The desire to conceive and to bring forth chil- 
dren (the corporal man) is a carnal desire. It is spiritual 
death; it is of the flesh and not of the spirit. It is error 
— the incorrect conception of God as life being in matter. 
It is of the senses, and not of spirit. The serpent is 
death. If the serpent — sin — sensuality — were completely 
overcome, as Christ overcame it, mortal conception and 
propagation would cease, and life would come to all 
God's creation (Gen. 3:1; Rev. 12:9; Matt. 22:10-6; 
2 Cor. 11: 3; Rev. 12: 9). "And the Great Dragon was 
cast out, that old serpent called the Devil, and Satan, 
which deceiveth the whole world, he was cast out into the 
earth — into the flesh — and his angels were cast out with 
him" (Rev. 12: 9).. The serpent here and the Dragon are 
one and the same. It is the spiritual death of the soul. 
The soul cast out of the presence of God is the Dragon's 
mind. "And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, 
now is come salvation and strength and the Kingdom of 
our God and the power of His Christ; for the accuser 
of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before 
our God day and night. And they overcame Him by 
the Blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony 
and they love not their lives unto death" (Rev. 12: 10-11). 
The Dragon here — the power of the flesh — is cast out 
from the soul by the power of the Christ. The soul that 
has tasted of the Christ has life. The soul that has been 
regenerated by the Spirit and has had the thoughts of 
carnality — the lust of the flesh — darkness and death 
cast out of the soul and from consciousness of the soul has 
life. Such a soul is alive and lives unto God. Such a 
soul is free from sensuality, carnal thoughts and lust 
desires. Such a soul is alive unto the Christ and dead 
unto the flesh — the serpent. And the Lord sent fiery 
serpents among the people, and they bit the people, 
and much people of Israel died. Therefore the people 
came to Moses and said, "We have sinned, for we have 



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spoken against the Lord and against thee. Pray unto 
the Lord that He may take away the serpents from us." 
And Moses prayed for the people and the Lord said unto 
Moses, "Make thee a fiery serpent and set it up upon a 
pole and it shall come to pass that everyone that is bitten 
when he looketh upon it, shall live" (Numbers 21: 6-9.) 
God was here delivering the children of Israel out of 
bondage from Egypt. Israel means the soul, the Spiritual 
man made in God's image. Egypt here was the symbol 
of the lust of the flesh, the serpent. Egypt was a nation 
of idolaters, it was a nation of sex worshipers. All through 
Egypt were erected temples where the women gathered 
and gave up their virtue, to sex worship. The sex in- 
dulgence in these temples was considered holy and pure. 
It was done in the name of the gods — the senses of the 
flesh; and for the gratification of the flesh. The bull, 
the most sensual of the animal creation, was used as the 
symbol of the Egyptian gods — sensuality was the religion 
of the Egyptians. Sex worship was their religion, and lust 
and sensuality their gods. The Jews had been in bondage 
in Egypt. This was symbolic of the soul being in bondage 
to the flesh, for Israel is the symbol of the soul — the Spirit. 
God was delivering Israel from Egypt — the soul from 
bondage to the lust of the flesh. As the children of 
Israel journeyed from Egypt to Canaan, they were told 
not to worship the Egyptian gods, not to indulge in sex 
worship. This is symbolic and means that every soul 
that would journey into the land of the Spirit, truth and 
life must not worship the lust senses of the flesh ; but God 
as the True God, the All Life and Spirit. But they dis- 
obeyed God, and indulged the lust desires of the flesh and 
God sent fiery serpents upon them — withdrew Himself 
from their consciousness and souls as Spiritual Beings, 
and as the All Life of their beings, and the carnal thoughts 
of the flesh flowed into their souls as Spiritual death. The 
fiery serpents were among the people everywhere— carnal 
thoughts — and bit the people everywhere and much of 
the people of Israel died. Thus the souls of men are dying 
daily. Man — the man made in God's image and who is 
spirit and life, by indulging the lust thoughts of the flesh, 
dies daily. Sex worship is death to the soul. And the 
people of Israel came to Moses and said, "We have sinned 
for we have spoken against the Lord and against thee, 



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pray unto the Lord that He take away the serpent from 
us — the carnal thoughts from our souls — and let our 
souls live." Men are daily indulging the lust senses of 
the flesh — carnal desires and thoughts — sex worship and 
are dying spiritually; and when the soul wanders in 
the night of darkness and spiritual death — far away from 
the Presence of God as Life, it realizes that it has sinned — 
that it is out of the Presence of God as Life — that it has 
spoken against the Lord and that the carnal thoughts of 
the flesh and the lust desires of the flesh — the mind of the 
serpent — is pouring into the soul as death. Then that 
soul desires the Lord to take away the thought of the 
serpent from the consciousness of the soul so it may know 
God and live. And the Lord said unto Moses, ''Make 
thee a fiery serpent and set it upon a pole and it shall 
come to pass that every one that is bitten when he looketh 
upon it shall live." And Moses made a serpent of Brass 
and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass that if a ser- 
pent had bitten any man when he beheld the serpent of 
brass he lived. Numbers 21: 8-9. The serpent made of 
brass and held upon the pole before the children of Israel 
typed a dead serpent. It was symbolic of the death of the 
serpent. Wherever the serpent dies, the soul lives. Where 
the serpent lives the soul dies. Carnal thoughts are death 
to the soul. Spiritual thoughts are death to the serpent. 
When man ceases to think carnal thoughts and have 
lust desires, he has spiritual thoughts and spiritual desires. 
When man ceases to be a sex worshiper, he worships the 
living God, but he cannot serve two masters; he cannot 
worship sex, the lust of the flesh and spirit— the living 
God and the senses at one and the same time. Man 
cannot desire the flesh and do the lust of the flesh, and 
worship God and do the will of God at one and the same 
time. The serpent that Moses held up in the wilderness 
was symbolic of the dead serpent, and all the children of 
Israel who looked upon this serpent, beheld the dead ser- 
pent, for the healing of the serpent, bites and lived. Every 
soul that crucifies the serpent ceases to think the thoughts 
of the flesh — and the lust of the flesh, shall be healed of 
the wounds of carnal thoughts and shall live. As the 
Spirit quickens the soul to life, the thoughts of the ser- 
pent die in the soul, as the soul is healed of the wounds of 
the serpent, it lives unto God. As man ceases to think 



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carnal thoughts and the desires of the lust of the flesh, 
he lives unto God. "And as Moses lifted up the serpent 
in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted 
up, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish 
but have eternal life" (John 3: 14-15). The serpent 
that Moses held up in the wilderness was the symbol of the 
death of the serpent — the carnal — the sex — in the Man 
Jesus on the Cross. The sex of the man Jesus died upon 
the Cross — the Christ within — the life of God overcame 
the serpent. The Christ, the Anointed One, the Gift of 
God as life, never died. Life is eternal, and life is the 
gift of God, and the Christ possessed life as the gift of 
God because he was the Son of God, and we become the 
sons of God when we are begotten of the spirit as the 
Christ was conceived. Then we cease to be the children 
of lust. The sex of the man Jesus was crucified upon the 
cross. The serpent died; the Anointed One — the Christ 
— the Son of God — the gift of God as life, overcame the 
erpent and lives. And all who partake of this 
life — the Christ — the tree of life — overcome the serpent 
and live unto God. Such a soul is dead unto the 
flesh and has no desire to propagate mortal man. Man 
is conceived through error — the senses — the' incorrect 
conception of life- — that life is in the lust of the senses, 
which is death, and must be begotten of spirit for the soul 
to have life — must overcome the sensual to live. The 
soul that has been begotten of the spirit, has no carnal 
thoughts and lust desires. 

And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, 
"Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through Thy 
name," and He said unto them, "I beheld Satan as light- 
ning fall from Heaven. Behold I give unto you the power 
to tread upon serpents and scorpions and all the power over 
the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you, 
notwithstanding in this rejoice not that spirits are sub- 
ject unto you, but rather rejoice because your names 
are written in Heaven" (Luke 10: 17-20.) Here the 
seventy, whom Jesus had sent out in His name to preach 
the gospel — the God mind — returned and said that the 
devils were subject unto them in His name. Devils 
here are the carnal thoughts of the flesh — the mind of the 
serpent — also the mind of the evil spirits in spirit life, 
who have gone there with the thoughts of the serpent in 



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the consciousness of the soul. They are absent from God 
as life in spirit land. They are thinking the thoughts of 
the flesh, and their desires are carnal. The seventy saw 
by the power of the Christ that these spirits were subject 
unto them, and through the Christ — the God mind — life — 
they cast them — death — out, and could cast the carnal 
desires of the flesh — death — out from the soul. And he 
said, "I beheld Satan as lightning fall from Heaven." 
He beheld all the power of the flesh, lust and sensuality — 
the mind of the serpent — death — cast out of the soul, 
from the consciousness of the souls of men. And He said 
unto them, ''Behold, I give unto you power to tread 
upon serpents' and scorpions, and all the power over the 
enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you." In 
His name he gave them power to cast out serpents and 
scorpions— lust desires and carnal thoughts — death — 
from the consciousness of the soul. He gave them all 
power over the flesh, to cast out every desire of the flesh 
in the consciousness of the soul, from the soul. And noth- 
ing can hurt a soul which is thus alive to God and dead 
unto the flesh. When the soul is dead to the flesh and 
alive unto God, there is no power that can injure it. 
"Notwithstanding, in this, rejoice not that the spirits 
are subject unto you, but rather rejoice because your 
names are written in Heaven." The seventy had com- 
plete power over the spirits. In His name, they could 
cast out the power of evil spirits, carnal desires, and the 
lust of the flesh from the soul. But He told them to re- 
joice not because of this fact, but rejoice because their 
names were written in Heaven, in the Book of Life; and 
their names were written in the book because, they had 
overcome the sensual. Their souls possessed life because 
they had overcome death. They only could cast out the 
power of these evil spirits and carnal desires from the 
soul, because their names were written in Heaven, in the 
Book of Life; that is, by being alive to the Christ, they 
had complete power over the flesh. The soul that has 
been quickened by the spirit and bears the image of the 
Christ and is alive unto God, the Father, has complete 
power over the mind of the serpent — carnal desires and 
the lust of the flesh and all evil spirits. The soul that has 
not the power to cast out the power of the flesh — carnal 
thoughts and lust desires — is not alive unto God, and that 



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soul is not written in the Book of Life. Such a soul does 
not bear the image of the Christ. And He said unto 
them, "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel — 
the Divine — the God mind — life — to every creature; 
he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but he 
that believeth not shall de damned. And these signs shall 
follow them that believe. In. My name they shall cast 
out devils, they shall speak with new tongues. They shall 
take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly things, 
it shall not hurt them. They shall lay hands on the sick 
and they shall recover" (Mark 16: 15-18). Belive here 
means to consider God as truth, to understand and to have 
a conscious realization of God as the All Life, Spirit and 
Mind of the Universe. The soul that is thinking the 
thoughts of the serpent, that is living in a conscious 
realization of carnal desires and lustful thoughts is absent 
from God as the All Life — Mind — of the Universe. Such 
a soul does not believe in God. Such a soul is worshiping 
sex, the sensual, and is spiritually dead. But the soul 
that believes, that is, has a conscious realization of God as 
life, and is living in the conscious realization of God as 
life, has complete power over the flesh — the ser- 
pent. Such a soul shall cast out devils — the mind and 
thoughts of evil spirits; and the lust and carnal thoughts 
of the flesh. Such a soul shall speak with a new tongue — 
the language of spirit. Such a soul shall take up serpents, 
shall cast oat all lust and carnal desires and shall not be 
injured by the mind of the serpent. And such a soul 
shall lay hands upon the sick and they shall recover. 
All diseases and sickness, insanity and crime are in the 
sex — the mind of the serpent — the product and the result 
of sin. The soul that overcomes sin, the mind of the 
serpent, the carnality and lust of the flesh, and lives in 
the conscious realization of God as life, shall have complete 
power over sin and sickness and shall lay hands upon the 
sick and they shall recover. The serpent has filled the 
world with hospitals and insane asylums, jails and peni- 
tentiaries. Jesus — the Christ — did not tell the Christian 
church to erect hospitals and insane asylums, but He 
told His Church to go forth in His name and heal the 
sick and restore sight to the blind, and to give the insane 
their right minds. He did not tell His ministers to be- 
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but to restore the insane to sanity, and to heal the sick. 
An apostle is a messenger and a messenger is one who 
bears the message, the thoughts and the mind of the 
sender. For the soul to be an apostle of the Christ, the 
soul must think the thoughts of the Christ, must have the 
mind of the Christ. The Christ had the mind of the Father 
and overcame the mind of the serpent, the lust and sen- 
suality of the flesh. He is an apostle of the Christ who 
has the same mind that the Christ had; who has cast 
out every desire of the flesh and carnal thoughts of the 
flesh from the soul, and is living unto the Father as the 
all mind and life of the universe. Such a soul is an apostle 
of the Christ and has the mind of the Christ, and can re- 
store the insane to sanity and heal the sick. Apostolic 
succession is the soul coming into the mind of the Christ, 
and such a soul is an Apostle of the Christ. He who does 
not possess this mind of the Christ is not an apostle of 
Christ, and has no power over the flesh. He is an apostle 
of the serpent and a disciple of the flesh. He worships 
sex, rather than the Living God as life. He is an idolater 
and not a Christian. "And Annanias went his way, 
and entered into the house, and putting his hands on him 
said, Brother Saul, the Lord even Jesus that appeared unto 
thee in the way as thou earnest hath sent me, that thou 
mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy 
Ghost — holy life. And immediately there fell from his 
eyes as it had been scales, and he received sight forthwith 
and arose and was baptized" (Acts 9: 17-18). "Is any man 
among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is any merry? 
Let him sing psalms. Is any sick among you? Let him 
call for the elders of the church and let them pray over 
him, annointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 
And the prayer of faith— spiritual understanding, a 
conscious realization of God as life, and the soul can only 
come into this understanding of God by overcoming the 
sensual — shall save the sick and the Lord shall raise him 
up ; and if he have committed sins — the lust of the flesh — 
they shall be forgiven him" (James 5: 13-15). Sin — the 
lust of the flesh — and sickness go hand in hand. They are 
one in essence. They are both the seed of the serpent. 
Without the mind of the serpent, there is no sin and no 
death. There is no death in the realization of God as life, 
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the absence of the realization of God within the soul as 
life. And this absence of God in the consciousness of the 
soul as life is caused by the mind of the serpent, the lust 
of the flesh — sex worship. The soul that overcomes the 
serpent and becomes conscious of God and lives in the 
conscious realization of God as life has complete power 
over sin — the lust of the senses — sickness and death. 

The apostles and Early Christians executed the com- 
mands of their Master. They healed the sick and re- 
stored the insane to their correct minds for nearly three 
hundred years after He departed from this earth. The 
preaching of the Gospel and healing of the sick is one in 
essence. The Gospel is the mind of God as life, and where 
the Mind of God is, sin — the lust of the flesh — sickness and 
death cannot be. The church never lost its power to heal 
the sick until it became sensual — until it lost the power of 
the Mind of God as life. When it became Pagan — wor- 
shiped the lust of the senses — and not Christian, the church 
lost its power to heal the sick. 



CHAPTER XXIV 

THE SERPENT. 

All pride, strife, conflict, envy, jealousy, malice, 
hatred, murder and death are within the serpent — sex. 
All war is within the sex. All avarice, greed and vanity 
are within the sex. Peace is within the soul that is conscious 
of God as a reality and life. Such a soul has overcome the 
serpent and is at peace. "For Nation shall rise up against 
nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall 
be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in divers 
places. All these are the beginning of sorrows'' (Matt. 
24:7-8; Mark 13; Luke 23). Thus spake Jesus to his 
disciples immediately before His crucifixion. "When ye 
therefore shall see the abomination of the desolation 
spoken of by Daniel, the prophet, stand in the Holy 
Place, whoso readeth, let him understand" (Matt. 24: 15). 
The desolation is nation rising up against nation, and 
kingdom against kingdom until the end of time, and the 
end shall finally come as the result of sin — the lust of the 
senses. All war and conflict, strife and death are of the 
serpent. Jesus told His disciples the reason for all war 
and conflict, envy, jealousy, hatred and strife and death 
among men — sensuality is the cause of them all. It is the 
mind of the serpent, the result of sin — the sex senses. 
"And woe unto them that are with child and to them 
that give suck in those days" (Matt. 24: 19). Thus 
spake Jesus, giving the reason for all the sorrow and suf- 
fering, conflict strife and death of this world. He declared 
that they are all from the mind of the serpent; that sen- 
suality is the cause of all strife, conflict, envy, jealousy, 
hatred, malice and death; and for this cause — sensuality — 
the heavens and earth should pass away. This law of the 
serpent — sin — sex, runs all through nature, on account of 
lust — sin. All that is unreal is controlled by the serpent. 
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kingdom but the vegetable kingdom, and the solar sys- 
tem. The law of the serpent prevails in the solar system, 
sorcery, astrology, witchcraft, soothsaying and whoredom 
are all synonymous terms in the Bible, and are used to 
convey the idea and conception of the mind of the ser- 
pent — sex — sensuality — sin (Isaiah 47: 9; 57:4; Acts 8: 9; 
13:6; Rev. 21:8; Rev. 22:15; Daniel 2:1-4; Daniel 
2:10; 5:7; Isaiah 47:13; 44:25; 47:11-12). "But 
these two things shall come to thee in a moment, in one 
day, the loss of children and widowhood ; they shall come 
upon thee in their perfection, for the multitude of thy 
sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchant- 
ments" (Isaiah 47: 9). But draw near hither ye sons of 
the sorceries, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. 
Against whom do ye sport yourselves? Against whom 
make ye a wise mouth? And draw out the tongue? 
Are ye not children of transgression, seed of falsehood, 
inflaming yourselves with idols, under every green tree, 
slaying the children in the valleys, under the cliffs of the 
rocks" (Isaiah 57: 3-6). "Stand now with thine enchant- 
ments and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein 
thou hast labored from thy youth, if so, be thou, shall 
be able to profit. If so, be thou, mayest prevail. Thou 
art weary in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the 
astrologers, the star gazers, the monthly prognosticators 
stand up and save ye from these things that shall come 
upon thee" (Isaiah 47: 12-13). "Then the king com- 
manded to call the magicians and the astrologers, and the 
sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to show the king his 
dream, so they came and stood before the king" (Dan. 
2:2). The Chaldeans answered before the king and said, 
"There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the 
king's matter. Therefore, there is no king, lord nor 
ruler that asked such things of any magician or astrologer 
or Chaldean" (Daniel 2: 10). "The king cried aloud to 
bring the astrologers, the Chaldeans and the soothsayers. 
And the king spake and said to the wise men of Babylon, 
whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the inter- 
pretation thereof, shall be clothed in scarlet and have a 
chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler 
of the kingdom" (Daniel 5:7). "There was a certain 
man called Simon which before time in the same city 
used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, 



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and giving out that himself was some great one, to whom 
they all gave heed from the least to the greatest, saying, 
This man is a great power of God, and to him they had 
regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them 
with sorcery. But when they believed Phillip's preach- 
ing, the things concerning the Kingdom of God — the king- 
dom of life — and the name of Jesus Christ, they were 
baptized, both men and women" (Acts 8: 9-13). "And 
when they had gone through the Isle of Paphos, they 
found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose 
name was Barjesus, which was with the Deputy of the 
Country, Serzius Paulus, a prudent man, who called for 
Barnabas and Paul and desired to hear the Word of God, but 
Elymas, the sorcerer, for so is his name by interpretation, 
withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from 
the place. Then Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with 
the Holy Ghost — holy life — set his eyes upon him and 
said, 'Oh, full of all subtility, and all mischief, thou child 
of the devil — the mind of the sex and lust senses — thou 
enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert 
the right way to the Lord? And now behold the hand of 
the Lord is upon thee and thou shall be blind, not seeing 
the sun for a season, and immediately there fell upon him 
a mist and darkness, and he went about seeking some one 
to lead him by the hand. Then the deputy when he saw 
what was done, believed being astonished at the doctrine 
of the Lord' " (Acts 13: 6-12). Here we see that all strife, 
pride, jealousy, malice, disease and death are in the sex 
and lust senses— and sin is in the serpent — generative 
organs and the carnal mind — and that the serpent is in 
the animal and vegetable kingdoms, and in the solar sys- 
tem; and that astrology, soothsaying, sorcery, witch- 
craft, divination, and whoredom are all one and the same 
in essence — idolatry, sex, the mind of the serpent; and 
that sex controls all material creation and that sex wor- 
ship is death. The mind of the serpent is the essence of 
all that is unreal, non-spiritual. Sex is the essence of 
all that appears, and is not in the Presence of God; and 
does not reflect God as life, and does not realize in con- 
sciousness, the reality of God as life. This creation of 
sex — sin — sickness, vanity, strife, envy, hatred, malice, 
war and death is sex and of sex and unreal; it does not 
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must pass away, and behold, all things shall become new. 
A new heaven and a new earth shall appear. God as the 
all life, mind and spirit of the universe shall appear in 
consciousness as the reality and the life of all'His spiritual 
universe; but the spirits that are separated from God by 
the consciousness of the unreal shall be in outer darkness. 
They shall be unconscious of God as the All and Only 
Life and Reality and Truth of the Universe. 

The consciousness of God as life drives the conscious- 
ness of the serpent out of the soul. As the soul becomes 
conscious of God as life, it becomes unconscious of the 
serpent and death. As the soul comes into the Presence 
of God as life, it has peace. The war and conflict of the 
serpent loses its power over the soul. Jesus said to his 
apostles, "Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto 
you" (John 14: 27). "Jesus appeared in the upper cham- 
ber to them after the resurrection and stood in the midst 
of his apostles, and said unto them, Teace be unto you,' " 
(John 19: 20-21, Luke 24: 36). The soul that has come 
into the Christ consciousness— that has overcome the 
sensual in desire as well as act, has the realization of God 
as life — the realization of peace. The strife and war of 
the serpent disappears from the consciousness of such a 
soul. Babylon, that mighty city of lust and sensuality — 
the power of the serpent, has fallen within that soul. 
"And there followed another angel saying, 'Babylon is 
fallen, is fallen, that great city because she made all 
nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication/ " 
(Rev. 14: 8). "And the woman thou sawest is that great 
city — Babylon — the City of the Sex and Lust Senses — 
which reigneth over the kings of the earth" (Rev. 17: 18). 
When the Christ comes into the soul, the mighty city of 
Babylon falls, the lust of the flesh loses its power over the 
soul, and the woman, that great city of the lust senses, 
which reigneth over the kings of the earth loses her power 
in the soul, in the City of Spirit, in the City of Soul Purity. 
When the Christ as life speaks to the soul, He awakens 
it to life, and that soul has peace. The death sting of the 
serpent and the war and death of the serpent vanisheth 
from the soul. The Christ is life, and therefore peace unto 
the soul. The serpent is death, and therefore war to the 
soul. When the mighty City of Babylon, the City of the 
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the soul, the City of the New Jerusalem, the City of 
Soul Purity, of life and spirit, arises within the soul and 
the soul has life and peace. As the soul passes from the 
City of Babylon, the City of Sensuality, war and death, 
it goes into the City of the New Jerusalem, the City of 
Soul Purity, the city of the spirit, life and peace. 

But for the soul to have peace and life, it must pass 
from Babylon, the City of Sensuality, to the City of the 
New Jerusalem, the City of Soul Purity — peace — spirit 
and life — the soul must overcome the sensual, if it would 
live, and know God as life. There is no life for the soul 
this side of the veil of the senses. All that is in the outer 
temple, the temple of the sex and lust senses is death. 
Beyond the veil of the senses is the inner temple — God — 
Life — and the soul that overcomes the sensual shall 
enter that temple of life and have life and Reflect God, the 
All Life. 



CHAPTER XXV. 

SEX WORSHIP. 

Paganism is sex worship. It is the religion of the 
senses. Man has no inherent life in himself. All life is 
within God, as universal life; and man, who was made in 
the image of God, reflects God as life. As long as man re- 
tained the image of God as life he reflected life; but when 
he partook of the forbidden fruit, when the soul indulged 
the lust of the flesh in thought and carnal consciousness, 
man lost the image of God, and was driven out from God's 
presence as life and ceased to reflect God as life. He ceased 
to worship God as life and worshipped the sex of the flesh — 
death. He worshipped Baal — sex, the lust and sex senses. 
"And they forsook the Lord and served Baal, and Ash- 
taroth," (Judges 2: 13). Ashtaroth is the female of sex 
worship and Baal is the male of sex worship. Sex worship 
is the evil that Adam and Eve became conscious of when 
they indulged the sex realtions which turned them out 
of the Garden of Eden, which turned them out from the 
Presence of God as life and caused them to cease to re- 
flect God as life, into outer darkness and death. "And 
the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, 
Hittits and Amorites and Perizzits and Hivits and Jedus- 
ites, and they took their daughters to be their wives and 
gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods. 
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, 
and forgot the Lord their God and served Baalim and the 
Groves. Therefore the anger of the Lord was hot against 
Israel" (Judges 3: 5-8). "And the children of Israel did 
evil again in the sight of the Lord and served Baalim 
and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of 
Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children 
of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistine and forsook the 
Lord and served not Him, and the anger of the Lord was 
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Philistine and into the hands of the children of Ammon" 
(Judges 10: 6-7). Baal here is the male and Ashtaroth is 
the female of sex worship. They constitute the unit of 
sex life and the object of sex worship. The evil that the 
children of Israel committed was the same evil Adam and 
Eve committed in the Garden of Eden — the indulgence 
of the sex in thought, mind and act — sensuality. And the 
gods that they worshipped were the same gods that Adam 
and Eve became conscious of in the Garden of Eden — 
the gods of the sex and lust senses of the flesh. It was this 
consciousness of the lust and sex senses of the flesh that 
caused the soul made in God's image to lose the image of 
God as life and to cease to reflect God as life, that drove 
the soul out of the presence of God, the all life, and 
caused the soul to cease to worship God as spirit light 
and life, and to worship the lust of the flesh as darkness 
and death, that caused the soul to cease to worship the 
real God — life — and to worship the unreal — nothing — 
evil — death. 

The worship of God as the real, as spirit and life, is 
peace and life. The worship of Baal, the unreal — the lust 
of the flesh, is darkness and death. All evil of the flesh 
comes out of and originates in the worship of Baal — sex. 
Sex worship is the father of all vanity, ambition, selfish- 
ness, greed, avarice, malice, hatred, darkness and death. 
They are all located within the sex and lust senses of the 
mortal mind. All of these exist in the consciousness of the 
soul, as the soul is banished from the presence of God as 
peace, love, light and life. From Genesis to Revelation, 
the Bible records the record of the soul as it travels from 
life to death, through sex worship, and from darkness and 
death to light and life through the worship of the living 
God as life. Sex worship is the worship of the unreal as 
darkness and death — nothing. The worship of the living 
God is the worship of the spirit, as Universal Intelligence 
and universal life, and this worship is life. It is real. 
The soul that worships God as life is in the image of God 
and reflects God as life. Sex worship is death to the soul. 
Deut. 12:2-4; Num. 22:41; Judges 2:13; Judges 3:7, 
10:6; Ps. 1:6, 34:39; 1 Kings 16:32-33, 18:25-27; 
2 Kings 17: 14-16, 21: 1-4; Jeremiah 2: 8, 7: 9-10, 12: 16- 
17, 19: 3-6, 23: 13; Hosea 2: 7-8, 13: 1; Sex worship is 
unreal. The worship of God as life is the real. Sex 



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worship is error. The worship of God as spirit is the truth. 
Sex worship is darkness and death. The worship of God as 
life and spirit is light and life. All mortal creation is 
founded on sex worship. There is no sex worship in the 
soul life and the Christ consciousness. The union of the 
sexes is based on sex worship. The reproduction of all 
mortal creation is sex worship; man was made in God's 
image but he is begotten in the flesh through sex worship. 
The home and society is founded on sex worship. The 
ties of blood is sex worship — the affections of the mortal 
mind — are sex affections and sex attractions. All com- 
merce and government are founded upon sex worship — 
avarice and greed, ambition and strife, and desire for 
power is sex worship. The worship of God as the living 
God, is humility in the soul and life to the soul. All sick- 
ness and disease and insanity originate in and grow out of 
sex worship. The power to heal the sick, restore sight to 
the blind, and normal faculties to the insane mind, is 
inherent in the worship of God as spirit and as the all 
life and mind. The soul that overcomes sex worship and 
is living in the conscious realization of God as life and is 
worshipping God as the all life and mind and that re- 
flects God as life, has power over all disease, insanity, 
darkness and death — the results of sex worship. 

All nations have had their Temples of Paganism — 
sex worship— the religion of the senses. In Egypt the 
banks of the Nile were filled with them; in Chaldea and 
Babylon they were everywhere. They covered the plains 
of Asyria and the Hills of the Medes. The cultured cities 
of Greece and Rome were beautified with their Pagan 
Temples. All the architecture of the cultured ancients 
bore the marks and structure of sex worship. Where- 
ever the foot of man has trod, he has erected his Temple 
in some form or fashion to the god of lust — to the same 
god that drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, 
out of the presence of God as life into the senses — dark- 
ness and death. Ever since the first man and the first 
woman indulged the lusts of the flesh and were driven 
out of the presence of God as life, and ceased to reflect 
God as life, man has worshipped the god of lust and 
sensuality. The soul cast out from the presence of God 
as life, worships lust of the flesh as death. There are but 
two forms of worship: truth and error; the real and the 



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unreal; light and darkness; life and death. God is 
truth, life, light and reality, and the soul that is in the 
image of God worships Him as reality, truth, light and 
life, and reflects Him as life; and the soul that is banished 
from His presence as the all life, worships the unreal 
error, darkness and death — nothingness, the lusts of the 
flesh. Daily we see men and women who have lived for 
and worshipped their god of sex, until despair, misery, 
sin and death are written in their faces. Their faces ex- 
press the spiritual death of their souls. The soul cannot 
worship the lust of the flesh, darkness, sin and death with- 
out having the results written upon the face; neither can 
the soul live in the image of God and worship Him as life 
and reflect Him as life, without having peace and life 
written upon the face. If God is the all life, then the wor- 
ship of God is life, and the worship of the flesh — nothing- 
ness — is death — the absence of God as life in the soul. 

Babel and Babylon mean one and the same thing; 
Babel is the Hebrew word for the Greek term Babylon. 
Genesis 10: 10. Babylon was the Ancient City where 
sensuality and lust ruled supremely. It was the essence 
of sin. In ancient times it was the most corrupt and sen- 
sual city of all the world. And in the scriptures it has 
been used to convey the idea and conception of the lust 
and the sex senses of the flesh — sex worship, sin and 
death. The sex worshippers of ancient days endeavored 
to know God through the lust and sex senses as they do 
today. But Israel — the soul, the spirit, made in the image 
of God, and reflects God as life, cannot know God and can- 
not worship God through the lust senses of the flesh. 
Whenever the soul attempts to worship God through the 
lust senses of the flesh, there is a confusion of tongues as 
there was in ancient times. The tower of Babel is sym- 
bolic of the soul endeavoring to know God through the 
lust and sex senses of the flesh — sex worship. The soul 
cannot know God through senses, and when the soul at- 
tempts to become conscious of God through senses there 
is a confusion of tongues — sex worship produces a con- 
fusion of tongues. Daily, men are worshipping the lust 
and sex senses of the flesh and their spiritual understand- 
ing becomes so confused that they have no conscious reali- 
zation of God as the all life and light of the universe. 
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the senses; they have no spiritual understanding. The 
soul that is worshipping the living God as the all life, 
reflects God as life and speaks with the tongue of spiritual 
understanding. All men had this spiritual understanding 
so long as man worshipped God as the only life and re- 
flected Him as the only life. But when man forsook God 
and the worship of God as the all life, and went into sex 
worship of the lust and sex senses of the flesh as death, 
man had a confusion of tongues. He spoke the language 
of the lust and sex senses of the flesh, and not the language 
of the soul and spirit. Genesis 11. 

All through the Bible the Ancient City of Babylon, 
the essence of sensuality, is used, as the symbol of sex 
worship. And as the female is the drawing force in nature, 
Babylon is used to convey the idea of the female (woman) 
of mortal creation controlling and governing all mortal 
life through her sex forces. 2 Kings 17:20; Isaiah 
13:1-22, 31:2, 47:48; Jeremiah 21:12, 50:54; Rev. 
14:8, 17:18; Isaiah 13:19-22; Isaiah 14:1-2. "And 
Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one 
bullock for yourselves and dress it first, for ye are many 
and call on the name of your gods but put no fire under it, 
and they took the bullock which was given them and they 
dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning, 
even until noon, saying, 'Oh, Baal, hear us/ but there was 
no voice nor any that answered, and they leaped upon the 
altar which was made, and it came to pass at noon that 
Elijah mocked them and said, 'Cry aloud for he is a god, 
either he is talking or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, 
or perad venture he sleepeth and must be awaked/ And 
they cried aloud and cut themselves, after their manner 
with knives, and lancets until the blood gushed out upon 
them, and it came to pass when midday was passed and 
they prophesied until the time of the offering of evening 
sacrifice that there was neither voice nor any answer nor 
any that regared. And Elijah said until all the people 
'Come near unto me', and all the people came near unto 
him, and he repaired the altar of the Lord that was 
broken down and Elijah took twelve stones, according to 
the number of the Tribes of the Sons of Jacob, unto whom 
the word of the Lord came, saying, 'Israel shall be thy 
name,' and with the stones he built an altar in the name 
of the Lord, and he made a trench about the altar as great 



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as would contain two measures of seed, and he put the 
wood in order and cut the bullock in pieces and laid him 
on the wood, and said, 'Fill four barrels with water and 
pour it on the burnt sacrifice and on the wood/ and he said 
do it the second time, and they did it the second time, and 
he said do it the third time, and they did it the third time, 
and the water ran around about the altar and he filled 
the trench all full of water, and it came to pass at the time 
of the offering of the evening sacrifice that Elijah the 
Prophet came near and said, 'Lord, God of Abraham, 
Isaac and Israel, let it be known this day that thou art 
the God of Israel and that I am thy servant, and that I 
have done all of these things at Thy word. Hear me, 
Lord, hear me, that this people may know that Thou art 
the Lord God, and that Thou hast turned their hearts 
back again.' Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed 
the burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stone, and the 
dust and licked up the water that was in the trench. And 
when all the people saw it, they fell on their face sand they 
said, 'The Lord, He is God, the Lord He is God/ " (1 
Kings 18:25-39). Men in all ages have worshipped 
Baal — the lust and sex senses — the god of Baal as the 
ancient Hebrew did, as recorded in this quotation of 
Scripture. As they have worshipped Baal — the sex and 
lust senses, and the vanity of the flesh, no answer has re- 
turned to them except darkness and death. As they have 
cried, Baal hear us, spiritual death has been the answer. 
There is only one mind and life — God. And when the 
soul ceases to worship that life, and to reflect that life, 
it goes into outer darkness and death. The soul that 
worships Baal — the lust senses of the flesh — must die. 
But the soul that turns from sex worship and ceases to 
worship and live for the lust of the flesh, and returns to 
the worship of God, as the Father of the soul and reflects 
God as life, shall cry out unto God for life and God as the 
All Spirit and life, will light that soul up with life and give 
that soul life, as the soul comes into the presence of God, 
as the reality, light and life of the universe, the soul re- 
flects God as life, and lives. "When Ephraim spake tremb- 
ling, he exalted himself in Israel, but when he offended 
in Baal he died." Every soul that worships Baal — the 
lust of the flesh — must die. God told the man He made 
in His image and who reflected God as life, that when he 



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ceased to worship God as life, and to reflect God as life, 
that he should die. Man ceased to reflect God as life 
when he partook of the lust of the flesh and worshipped 
Baal — the sex of the flesh, darkness and death. If man 
would live, he must cease to worship Baal and turn to the 
living God and worship Him as life, and reflect Him as 
life. When Ephraim offended in Baal he died. In all 
ages man has died for offending in Baal— sex worship is 
death. When men shall have ceased to offend in Baal, and 
to worship Baal, they shall live unto God. But as long 
as they worship Baal, they shall die. The soul that wor- 
ships Baal is unconscious of God as the all reality, light and 
life of the universe. Such a soul is cast out from the 
presence of God, as the All Life, and is dying every minute. 
It cries out to Baal — the lust of the flesh — for life; and 
no answers of life comes back to the soul. Nothing but 
darkness and death comes unto the consciousness of the 
soul that worships Baal. All creation travaileth and 
mourneth with the worship of Baal. Sex controls all 
mortal creation — solar system — vegetable and animal 
kingdoms. When the man made in God's image shall 
cease to worship Baal — sex — a new Heaven and a new 
Earth shall appear and man shall reflect God as the All 
Life of the universe. The astrologers, the star gazers, 
the soothsayers, and those given to witchcraft and divina- 
tion, the adulterers and the fornicators, are all sex wor- 
shippers. Sex controls all mortal creation. Men bow 
down to Baal — sex — the unreal — and do not know God 
as life — the real— all of this creation travaileth with the 
worship of Baal, the stars, the heaven and the earth — 
all mortal creation — the unreal — shall pass away. And a 
new heaven and a new earth — the real shall be ushered in, 
wherein the souls that have died unto Baal and have lived 
unto God may worship the living God and may reflect 
Him as the All Life and the glory of the universe. But 
those who have not returned to the image of God and wor- 
shipped Him as God, and reflected Him as life, but have 
lived for and worshipped Baal shall be in outer darkness — 
cast out of the presence of God as the life and light of the 
universe. 

Babylon is the City of Sex Worship, wherein Baal is 
god. It is the city of outer darkness and death. Jerusalem 
is the City of Israel, the City of Soul Purity and Spirit — 



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Life. It is the City where God as the All Life and Mind 
and Spirit is King. The King spake and said, "Is not 
this great Babylon that I have built for you the house of 
the kingdom by the might of my power and for the honor 
of my majesty?" (Daniel 4: 30). This was the city where 
sensuality was god, and lust was king. It was the city 
where sex worship was the only god. But this city of 
night and death shall fall. Isaiah 13: 2-22, 21: 2, 27: 48; 
Jeremiah 25:12, 50:54; Rev. 14:8. "Behold here 
cometh a chariot of men with a couple of horsemen, and 
he answered and said, 'Babylon is fallen, is fallen, and all 
the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the 
ground. Then the heavens and the earth and all that is 
therein shall sing for Babylon, for the spoiler shall come 
in unto her from the North, sayeth the Lord. As Babylon 
hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so Babylon shall 
fall the slain of all the earth." (Jeremiah 51: 48-49). And 
Babylon, the glory of the kingdoms, the beauty of the 
Chaldeans, exceedingly shall be as when God overthrew 
Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, 
neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation, 
neither shall the Arabians pitch their tents there. Neither 
shall the shepherds make their fold there. But the wild 
beasts of the desert shall lie there and their houses shall 
be full of doleful creatures, and the owls shall dwell there; 
and Satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the 
islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and the dragons 
in their pleasant places, and her time is near to come and 
her days shall not be prolonged/' (Isaiah 13: 19-22). 
"For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob and will yet 
choose Israel and set them in their own lands and the 
strangers shall be joined with them and they shall cleave 
to the house of Jacob, and the people shall take them and 
bring them to their places and house of Israel shall posess 
them in the land of the Lord for the servants and the hand 
maids, and they shall make them captives, whose captives 
they were. And they shall rule over their persons" (Isaiah 
14: 1-2). "There shall not be anything left in Babylon — 
in the city of sex worship but darkness and death. Noth- 
ing shall dwell there but dragons with their hisses, poisons 
and death — the same serpent that was in the Garden of 
Eden — -sensuality. The soul that bows down to Baal and 
lives for the lust of the flesh is in this city, Babylon, in 



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the city of darkness and death. It is not conscious of the 
harmony of the music of love and life in the city of the 
new Jerusalem — the city of God, where all the redeemed 
reflect God as life; such a soul has no conscious realiza- 
tion of God as life, it is only conscious of the discord of the 
sensual — outer darkness and the poison of the serpent as 
death. But Israel — the soul that has regained the con- 
scious realization of God as life, and reflects God as life, 
does not dwell in this city where Baal is god, and all is 
outer darkness and death. But the soul who has regained 
the consciousness of God as life is a citizen of the new 
Jerusalem, where all is love, harmony and life, and re- 
flects God as the All Life of the universe. And there 
followed another angel saying, ' 'Babylon is fallen, is 
fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink 
of the wine of the wrath of her fornications." (Rev. 14: 8). 
Every soul that has returned to the Garden of Eden, to the 
presence of God as life and reflects God as life, has passed 
from Babylon into the city of the New Jerusalem, from the 
city of the lust senses to the city of soul purity. To such a 
soul Babylon has fallen. Wherever the Christ comes into 
the soul as life, the power of Baal as death ceases in con- 
sciousness of that soul. Wherever the soul forsakes Baal, 
and ceases to worship Baal as death, and turns to God as 
the All life and worships God as life, that soul passes from Ba- 
bylon into the New Jerusalem — passes from the worship of 
Baal — sensuality — to the worship of God as the living God 
— Spirit. The City of Babylon is the home of the sex wor- 
shippers. In that city Baal rules and reigns. The City of 
the New Jerusalem is the home of the soul who has for- 
saken Baal and has lived unto God and has worshipped 
Him as life, and in that City all is light and life. There is 
no night there, and the Christ is king. 

The carnal in music, art and literature is sex worship. 
All human ties and affections is sex worship; the tie that 
binds the male and female is sex worship. Human affec- 
tion is within the sex — the mortal mind. Soul love is 
within the soul — the Divine Mind, and there is no sex 
in the Divine Mind. That which makes the mother love 
her offspring and the father his child is sex worship. It 
is human affection and is within the mortal mind. In 
soul love and divine mind all souls are the same — the 
children of God. All affection of blood relations is sex 



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worship. It grows out of the mind of the serpent — the 
carnal and not the spiritual. It is of the mortal mind and 
not the divine mind. All souls are the children of God and 
as they worship Him, they return to his image and become 
Royal children of the Father; and brethren of one house- 
hold — the spiritual kingdom of God. All human affec- 
tions of blood relations are based on human selfishness — 
the mind of the serpent and sex worship. They are of the 
mortal mind and not the divine mind. Jesus therefore 
repudiated all human ties and blood relations; He re- 
pudiated the relation of his mother as mother and His 
brethren and sisters and said, "Who is My mother, My 
brethren, My sisters? He that doeth the will of My 
Father, who art in Heaven is My mother, My brethren 
and My sister." He could not have been true to the di- 
vine worship of His Father as life and mind and spirit 
and paid allegiance to human ties and human affections. 
He could not have worshipped God alone as the All Life 
and mind of the universe and have yielded at the same 
time to the ties of human affections. For He would have 
been guilty of sex worship, and He could not serve Mam- 
mon and His Father at one and the same time. Again 
He said, "He that hateth not his father and his mother, 
and his brother and his sister, cannot be my disciple." 
The Master thereby declared that all human ties origi- 
nated in the mind of the serpent and are of the serpent — 
sex worship. He did not mean that you should hate your 
mother and your father spiritually, for God is love and 
not hatred; but He meant to say, and so declared, that 
unless you repudiated all laws of the flesh — the selfish- 
ness of the flesh, and the ties of the flesh, that you cannot 
be His disciple. He meant to say, that in the Christ mind 
which is the mind that reflects God, as the All Life and 
Mind, that all are the children of God, and that there are 
no human and selfish ties in the Christ mind — all is love and 
life. As we pass from the sex worship to the worship of the 
true God of life, we pass from all human ties and human 
affections, into spiritual life, where as the children of the 
Father, we reflect Him as life and all are brethren. Jesus 
repudiated the human ties of motherhood. He referred 
to His mother as "woman" not as mother. He was not 
disrespectful to her as the mortal mother of His mortal 
body, lout He realized that the human ties of the mortal 



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son to the mortal mother and the mortal mother to the 
mortal son were of the flesh — sex worship and not of the 
Divine Mind and of the worship of God as life. As the 
Son of the only True God who reflected His Father as the 
All Life, He had to repudiate the mortal tie, as mortal son 
to the mortal mother. He was courteous as mortal son to 
mortal mother, but recognized her as "woman" and not 
mother, after He was annointed and became the Christ — 
after He had kept the law of His Father and received the 
gift of His Father as life. On the cross, he recognized Her 
as "woman'' and not as mother; He committed her to 
His beloved disciple John; He was thoughtful of her as 
"woman;" but not as "mother," to have thought of her 
as mother and to have recognized her as mother would 
have been to have repudiated His sonship as the Son of 
the living God, and the only Begotten of the Father. 
On the cross He repudiated all sex worship — all laws and 
affections of the flesh, and recognized that the only life 
was in His Father as the All Life. And as the only Be- 
gotten of the Father, He worshipped the Father as life, 
and as the only Father and Life. If we would pass from 
death unto life, we must repudiate all human ties, sel- 
fish motives, and repudiate sex worship — cease to worship 
darkness and death and worship God as the true and liv- 
ing God — as the only life. 

In all ages men have been guilty of sex worship, and 
have recognized it as darkness and death. Man's soul 
separated from God by the death sting of the serpent, 
is conscious that it is in outer darkness, and that it must 
be resurrected — restored to life — in order to reflect the 
image of the Father as life, hence in all ages of the world, 
every system of religion has had its legends of the resurrec- 
tion . The soul in outer darkness, cast out from the pres- 
ence of God as life, is conscious that sex worship is death — 
that the soul is conceived by the power of sex ownership — 
that it is conceived in outer darkness and begotten by the 
power of the flesh and that it cannot be resurrected and 
restored to the image of the Father by any human law or 
power of the flesh ; hence all religions in all ages, have had 
their legends of Immaculate and Supernatural concep- 
tions, and that these children of virgins have overcome the 
death sting of the serpent and the grave, rose from the dead. 
The truth of the Supernatural and Immaculate Concep- 



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tion of Jesus and his resurrection from the dead is written 
in the consciousness of the soul — begotten by the power 
of the flesh and conceived in sex worship. The necessity 
for the supernatural conception to overcome the death 
sting of the serpent is written in the consciousness of the 
soul of man. The necessity that the soul which is con- 
ceived by the power of the flesh and begotten by the mind 
of the serpent should taste of the resurrection and restora- 
tion to life, in order to see God and to reflect God as life 
is written in the soul of man. Confucious, Zoroaster, 
Brama, Marci, Mithras, and all of the founders of all the 
religions of all ages have had their legends of virgin con- 
ceptions and resurrections. The necessity for the super- 
natural conception and the resurrection is written within 
the soul of man. The soul that is conceived and begotten 
of the mind of the serpent, is in outer darkness and has no 
power of itself to restore itself to life wherein it can reflect 
God as life. In order for the soul to overcome the flesh — 
the death sting of the serpent — it must be begotten by 
the Divine Mind as was the Christ, and not by sex worship 
— the mind of the serpent. Sex worship is death. The 
worship of God as the only life is life eternal. Jesus was 
begotten by the Father — Divine Mind — and not by the 
mind of the serpent — sex worship — and hence lived the 
law of perfection and underwent all the temptations of the 
flesh and of the serpent within the man Jesus until at 
thirty years of age, when the serpent was mature within 
the man Jesus. Then He was annointed, received the 
gift of His Father as life and became the Christ; and re- 
flected His Father as life. He was the Son of His Father — 
Divine Mind — and repudiated all human ties, blood rela- 
tions—mortal mind — sex worship in every form, and only 
worshipped His Father as the living God — Spirit — and 
overcame death and the grave — the senses of the flesh. 
If we would know God as life eternal, we must repudiate 
all sex worship as did the Christ, and march from darkness 
to light and from death to life, and worship God as the 
only true God — Spirit— and the only life and reflect Him 
as life, and thereby become His children, and as the Father 
hath life in Himself, so shall we have life. 

Then Jesus was led of the spirit into the wilderness to 
be tempted of the Devil. And after He had fasted for 
forty days and forty nights, He was afterwards an 



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hungered. And when the tempter came to Him, He said, 
"If thou be the son of God, command that these stones 
be made bread." But He answered and said, "It is written 
man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that 
proceedeth out of the mouth of God." Then the Devil 
taketh Him up into the Holy City and setteth Him on a 
pinnacle of the Temple and said unto Him, "If thou be the 
son of God, cast Thyself down for it is written He shall 
give His angels charge concerning Thee, and in their 
hands they shall bear Thee up lest at any time Thou dash 
Thy foot against a stone." Jesus said unto Him, "It is 
written again, thou shalt not tempt the Lord Thy God." 
Again the Devil taketh Him up into an exceedingly high 
mountain, and sheweth Him all the kingdoms of the 
world, and the glory of them, and sayeth unto Him, 
"All these things will I give Thee if thou will fall down 
and worship me." Then Jesus sayeth unto him, "Get thee 
hence Satan for it is written thou shall worship the Lord 
Thy God and Him only thou shalt serve." Then the 
Devil leaveth Him and behold Angels came and ministered 
unto Him." (Matt. 4: 1-11). As the Devil departed, 
the thoughts of the flesh departed from consciousness of 
His soul, the thoughts of His Father came into His soul 
as life. The angels ministered the divine mind of His 
Father as life. Jesus here had to select and choose be- 
tween sex worship — the worship of the lust of the flesh, 
and the worship of God as the true God and the Only 
Life. The temptation was the temptation of the lust and 
sex senses — the lust of the flesh. The Devil appeared to 
Him in threefold manifestations. The temptation was of 
three natures: First, hunger; man never hungered and 
never needed material food until after he indulged the 
lusts of the flesh, then God drove him out from his pres- 
ence as life into darkness. Drove the soul out of the pres- 
ence of God as spirit into the consciousness of the flesh 
and told man that he should live by the sweat of his face. 
Ever since man indulged the lusts of the flesh he has hun- 
gered and needed material food. Jesus hungered, the 
Devil told Him if He be the Son of God — of life — to turn 
the stones into bread and feed the hunger of the flesh — 
the mind of the serpent. And Jesus said, "Man shall 
not live by bread alone, but by every word that pro- 
ceedeth out of the mouth of God". It is the Word of 



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God. The realization of God as life that giveth man 
that spiritual food which is life eternal. The second 
temptation was pride. All vanity and pride is in sex. 
The Christ therefore was humble. The Christ overcame 
sex and all vanity and pride. The true Christian is the 
disciple of humility. But the Pagan who worships his 
god of the senses is filled with pride and vanity. The 
third temptation the Devil presented to Jesus was ambi- 
tion. All ambition is in sex; the Pagan who worships 
his god of sex is filled with ambition and worldly desires. 
He desires power. The kingdoms of the earth are ruled 
by ambition — sex — hence the nations of the earth "Shall 
lick the dust like the serpent." The true Christian has 
overcome the ambition of the sex and of the flesh and is a 
disciple of meekness. The Christ was meek. The lamb 
is used as a symbol to convey the idea of the meekness 
of the Christ. He was meek because he overcame the 
sex worship of the flesh, and worshipped his Father as the 
only spirit and life. When He overcame all temptations 
of the Devil, the sex of the flesh — the god of the lust and 
sex senses — the angels came and ministered unto Him. 
The divine mind was present in His soul as life. The 
angels are the ministers of the divine mind as life. When 
we repudiate sex worship and cease to worship the lust 
senses of the flesh as god and live in a conscious realiza- 
tion of God as life, and worship God as the only life, His 
mind as life will flow into our souls, restoring us to His 
image; and the angels who are His messengers will ad- 
minister to us the spirit of life. The Battle of Armageddon 
is within every man and woman; it is the battle between 
sex worship as death and the worship of the True God as 
life. "Enter ye in at the straight gate, for wide is the 
gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and 
many there be which go in thereat, because straight is the 
gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and 
few there be that find it" (Matt. 7:3-14). Many are 
the sex worshippers, who are traveling the broad way, 
that leadeth to destruction. All who travel that road, 
pass from God and life into outer darkness and death. 
And few they are who are the worshippers of the True 
God as life. All who travel that road, are going the route 
of truth and of life and shall awake in His image and re- 
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only true God, as spirit, and shall have life eternal. The 
priests, the scribes and elders that had Jesus crucified, 
were sex worshippers. Jesus had become the Christ, 
He had overcome the sex and sensual of the mortal crea- 
tion and had life, the life of His Father who is life; and 
He had worshipped His Father as the all reality and all 
life, and they worshipped their gods — sensuality as death. 
All mortal conception and propagation is through and 
by the sex worship and is death, and if we would live and 
be conscious of God as life, we must overcome the sensual 
as did the Christ. There is no life for the soul until man 
overcomes the sensual. 



CHAPTER XXVI. 
THE TRUE AND THE FALSE PROPHET. 

A true prophet is one who speaks the will of God — 
Sees with spiritual vision. He has had the veil of the sex 
and lust senses removed from the vision of the soul and 
spiritually sees God face to face, and knows and fore- 
tells the will of God. The true prophet is one who knoweth 
the will of God and speaks the voice of God. And Moses 
said unto the Lord, "Oh, My Lord, I am not eloquent 
neither heretofore nor since Thou hast spoken unto 
Thy servant, but I am slow of speech, and slow of tongue," 
and the Lord said unto him, "Who hath made man's 
mouth? Or who maketh the dumb or deaf, or seeing 
or the blind? Have not I,lthe Lord? Now therefore go 
and I will be with thy mouth and teach thee what thou 
shalt say." And he said, "Oh, my Lord, send I pray 
Thee, by the hand of Him whom thou will send." And the 
anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and He said, 
"Is not Aaron, the Levite, thy brother? I know that he 
can speak well. And also behold he cometh forth to meet 
thee, and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart. 
And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his 
mouth, and I will be with thy mouth and with his mouth, 
and will teach you what ye shall do" (Exodus 4: 10-15). 
It was the Will of God as spirit and life, and the voice of 
God that spoke through Moses and Aaron. It was God, 
the all life, mind and spirit reflecting Himself as life 
through them that made them prophets indeed. The 
true prophet is he who reflects the Will of God, the all 
life, and speaks the Voice of God, the Voice of life. 

True prophecy is not of the senses and the voice of 
the lust of the flesh, but of spirit. True priesthood is 
spirituality. The Christ was the Chief and High Priest 
because He was perfect spiritually. The power of pro- 
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by the voice of the spirit and through the spirit, and not 
from the voice of the flesh ; it is of the spirit and not of the 
flesh. There can be no true prophecy except of the spirit. 
Spirit is life, and God is spirit, and God is life; the true 
prophet reflects God as life and speaks by the will and the 
voice of God as life. And the Lord came down in the pillar 
of the clouds. And stood in the door of the tabernacle and 
called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forth and 
He said, "Hear now my words." Hear God as the reality 
and the life of the universe. "If there be a prophet among 
you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him, in a 
vision and will speak unto him in a dream" (Numbers 
12: 5-6). Vision is the soul realizing the consciousness of 
God as the all mind and life. It is the soul seeing God face 
to face. The vision of the soul is only possible when the 
veil — the sex and lust senses — is removed from con- 
sciousness of the soul. When the soul is conscious of God 
as life, and sees God face to face, the consciousness of 
the serpent, and the lust of the flesh is banished from the 
soul, and the soul reflects God as life; and sees visions; 
and speaks the Will of God and the Voice of God. The 
Christ was in the perfect consciousness of the Father as 
life, and reflected the Father at all times as the life, and 
hence knew all things and could speak the full power of the 
voice and will of His Father. The Christ had overcome the 
sex and lust senses of the man Jesus. The veil had been 
removed, and He knew all things. As the soul becomes 
conscious of God as life and becomes unconscious of the 
darkness and death of the senses of the flesh, it reflects 
God as life, and becomes a true prophet; and can speak 
the voice and the will of God and knows the will of God. 

The false prophet is he who speaks not the will of 
God or the voice of God, as life, but the will of the flesh 
and the voice of the lust and sex senses, as death. "And 
the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Sanctify unto me all 
the first born, whatsoever openeth the womb among the 
children of Israel, both of men and of beast; it is mine/' 
And Moses said unto the people, "Remember this day 
in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of 
bondage, for by the strength of the hand of the Lord were 
ye brought out from this place. There shall be no leaven 
bread eaten. This day came ye out in the month of 
Abib and it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into 



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the land of the Canaanites and the Hitites and the Amor- 
ites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which He swear 
unto thy fathers, to give thee a land flowing with milk and 
honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month. 
Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the 
seventh day shall be a feast of the Lord. Unleavened 
bread shall be eaten seven days, and there shall be no 
leavened bread to be seen with thee. Neither shall there 
be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters. And thou 
shall show thy son in that day, saying: This is done be- 
cause of that which the Lord did unto me when I came 
forth out of Egypt. And it shall be for a sign unto thee 
and upon thine hand and for a memorial between thine 
eyes that the Lord's law may be in thy mouth for with 
a strong hand hath the Lord brought thee out of Egypt. 
Thou shall therefore keep this ordinance in His season 
from year to year. And it shall be when the Lord shall 
bring thee into the land of the Canaanites as He swear 
unto thee and unto thy father, and shall give it thee" 
(Exodus 13: 1-11). Canaan is the land of spiritual under- 
standing — the land where the soul is conscious of God as 
life. Egypt is the land of the lust and sex senses, the land 
where the soul is in bondage to the lust of the flesh. The 
soul that is in Egypt is a false prophet. It speaks the 
voice of the lust and sex senses and the will of the senses. 
But the soul that is in Canaan is a true prophet. It speaks 
the will and the voice of God as life. 

If there arise among you a prophet or a dreamer of 
dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign 
or the wonder come to pass, whereof He spake unto thee, 
saying, "Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not 
known, let us serve them ; thou shall not harken unto the 
words of that prophet; or that dreamer of dreams; for 
the Lord your God proveth you to know whether ye love 
the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your 
soul. Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear 
Him and keep his commandments, and obey His voice, 
and ye shall serve Him and cleave unto Him. And that 
prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death 
because he hath spoken to you to turn you away from the 
Lord your God which brought you out of the land of 
Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage; 
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commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil 
away from the midst of thee. If thy brother, the son of 
thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of 
thy bosom or thy friends, which is as thine own soul, 
entice thee secretly saying let us go and serve other gods, 
which thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers; namely, 
of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh 
unto thee, or far off from thee from one end of the earth 
even unto the other end of the earth; thou shalt not 
consent unto him, nor harken unto him, neither shall 
thine eye pity him, neither shall thou spare, neither shall 
thou conceal him; but thou shall surely kill him; thine 
hand shall be first upon him to put him to death and 
afterwards the hand of all the people and thou shall 
stone him with stones until he die; because he has sought 
to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God, which brought 
thee out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage. 
And all Israel shall hear and fear and shall do no more 
any such wickedness as this among you" (Deut. 13: 1-11). 
The false prophet here is the one who has done evil. 
The same evil that Adam and Eve committed in the Gar- 
den of Eden — indulged the lust senses of the flesh. The 
gods of the false prophet here are the same gods as the 
gods that Adam and Eve became conscious of when they 
indulged the lust of the flesh — the lust and sex senses. 
The lust of the flesh is the god of the false prophet. And 
the false prophet is he who speaks the will of the flesh, 
the sex and lust senses, and by the voice of the flesh. 
The false prophets worship the sex senses, and speak 
through the voice of the senses. The true prophet is 
he who worships God as spirit and reflects God as life, 
and speaks the Will of God and by the Voice of God as 
life. The true prophet is the voice of life, the false prophet 
is the voice of death. "I will raise them up a prophet 
from among their brethren, like unto thee. And I will 
put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them 
all that I shall command him, and it shall come to pass 
that whosoever will not harken unto My words which he 
shall speak in My name, I will require it of him. But the 
prophet which shall presume to speak a word in My name 
which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall 
speak in the name of other gods — the lust and sex senses — 
even that prophet shall die" (Deut. 18: 18-20). The true 



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prophet is he who has overcome the senses of the flesh 
and is living in the consciousness of God as life and re- 
flects God as life, and speaks the Will of God and the Voice 
of God as life. The false prophet is he who speaks in the 
name of other gods — the gods of the lust and sex senses, 
reflects darkness and death and speaks the voice of death. 
The true prophet speaks the will of the divine mind — 
life. The false prophet speaks the will of the mortal 
mind— the will of the flesh— death. Matt. 7:14-20; 
Mich. 3:5-7; Mark 13:22; Romans 16:7; Eph. 5:6; 
Col. 2: 8; 2 Peter 2: 1; 1 John 1: 1; 2 Tim. 3: 15; Acts 
20:29-30; Matt. 24:11-12; 1 Tim. 4:1; Jude 18. 
"Thus sayeth the Lord, concerning the prophets that make 
my people err; that bite with their teeth and cry "peace," 
and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even 
prepare war against him. Therefore, night shall be unto 
you that ye shall not have vision and it shall be dark 
unto you, that ye shall not divine. And the sun shall go 
down over the prophets and the day shall be dark over 
them. Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners 
confounded. Yea, they shall all cover their lips for there 
is no answer of God" (Mich. 3:5-7). The soul that is 
living in the consciousness of the flesh, and for the sex and 
lust of the flesh, and serving the sex and lust senses of the 
flesh hears no answer from God. Such a soul has no vision 
of the spirit, no realization of God as life and does not 
reflect God as life, and cannot speak the Will of God, and 
the Voice of God as life. Such a soul is the false prophet, 
speaking the language of the senses of the flesh and the 
will of the flesh and the voice of the flesh — death — and 
serves the gods of the lust and sex senses. There is a veil — 
the lust and sex senses — between that soul and God, and 
that soul is blind as to God as life, and cannot know, 
realize nor speak the will of God. "And then shall many 
be offended and shall betray one another and shall hate 
one another; and many false prophets shall arise, and shall 
deceive many; and because iniquity shall abound, the love 
of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the 
end, the same shall be saved" (Matt. 24: 10-13). Jesus 
here defines who the false prophets are; those who pro- 
duce hatred and have malice in their hearts. Hatred and 
malice originate in the sex senses — the mind of the ser- 
pent. Those who are serving the serpent, possess vanity, 



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ambition, hatred and malice. Their god is the lust of the 
flesh; and they serve their god. Those who speak the 
will of the flesh are false prophets. Those who speak the 
will of the Father as life are the true prophets. 'Tor many 
shall come in My name, saying, I am the Christ, and shall 
deceive many and ye shall hear of wars and rumors of 
wars; see that ye be not troubled, for all these things must 
come to pass but the end is not yet" (Matt. 24:5-6). 
Jesus became the Christ when He was anointed — an- 
ointed means God's gift as life. God is life and the only 
life in the universe. His spiritual creation reflects Him as 
life. It has no inherent life within itself, but only possesses 
life as it reflects God as life. And when the Holy Ghost — 
the Holy Life came upon Jesus, He received the gift of 
His Father as life. That is, the spirit within the man, 
Jesus, overcame absolutely the sex senses — the lust of the 
flesh and the mind of the serpent; and He became the 
Christ, the Chief Priest, and the Perfect Life. He was the 
Son of His Father and spoke the will of His Father. 
As we become anointed, receive the gift of God as life, 
we overcome the lust of the flesh — death — and the mind 
of the serpent, and become true prophets and speak the 
will of our Father as life. But those who have not been 
anointed, who have not received the gift of the Father 
as life, do not reflect Him as life. They are living in the 
consciousness of the lust of the flesh and speak the will of 
the flesh. They are false prophets. There is a veil be- 
tween them and God. "But beloved, remember ye the 
words which were spoken before of the apostles of our 
Lord Jesus Christ, how that they told you there should 
be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their 
own ungodly lusts. These be they, who separate them- 
selves, sensual, having not the spirit" (Jude 17: 19). 
These are the false prophets. Jude defines them. They 
are those who have separated themselves from God as 
life, and serve the sensual — the lust of the flesh — not 
having the spirit. They are the sex worshippers and not 
the worshippers of the true God. The true prophet is 
one who has overcome the mind of the serpent and who has 
crucified the lust of the flesh and ceased to worship Baal — 
sex — but worships God as the true and only life and re- 
flects the life of God as the Father of Spirit. Such a 
prophet has the consciousness of God as life and speaks the 



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will of his Father. The false prophet worships the sex — 
the lust of the flesh, and reflects the mind of the serpent, 
darkness and death; and speaks the will of the flesh. 
He is the voice of the mind of the serpent, darkness and 
death. 

It was the sex worshippers that stoned and killed the 
true prophets, and it was the false prophets that nailed 
Jesus to the cross. His vision of life took from them their 
god of sensuality. The vision of the true prophet takes 
from the false prophet his god — sensuality — sex worship — 
hence the false prophets have stoned and killed the true 
prophets in all ages. 

The true prophet is he who has overcome sex worship. 
He has had the veil of the lust and sex senses removed from 
the vision of the soul and sees God face to face. He be- 
holds God as life, and speaks the mind of his Father as 
life. The false prophet has the veil of the lust and sex 
senses between him and God, which closes the vision of 
the soul; and he worships his god of sex and death, and 
speaks the will of the flesh, which is death. 



CHAPTER XXVII. 

THE CONFESSION AND THE CONFESSIONAL. 

"Every one, therefore, who shall confess Me before 
men, him will I confess before My Father which is in 
Heaven, but whosoever shall deny Me before men, him 
will I also deny before My Father which is in Heaven" 
(Matt. 10 : 32) . The original, in the Greek reads : "Every- 
one, therefore, who shall confess, in Me, before men, 
in Him, will I also confess before My Father which is 
in Heaven/ ' The idea here is not an oral confession of the 
lips — a public confession — not a confession merely ac- 
knowledging the physical man Jesus as a fact. The idea 
intended to be conveyed it not merely admitting the 
existence of the physical man Jesus; but the idea con- 
veyed is this: The soul coming into a real conscious 
knowledge of the Christ as life. He that confesses in 
the Christ; the Christ will confess in him, before His 
Father. That is, he who comes into the conscious reali- 
zation of the Christ, the Christ will impart life unto him 
from and in the presence of His Father. In the conscious 
realization of the Christ is life; and he who comes into the 
conscious realization of the Christ, the Christ will impart 
life to that soul. The soul that comes into the conscious 
realization of the Christ as life confesses the Christ — such 
a soul must overcome the sensual. There can be no con- 
scious realization of the Christ within the soul, until the 
soul has overcome the sensual. The veil must be rent 
in twain from "Top to Bottom" that separates the soul 
from a conscious realization of the Christ, before the soul 
can know the Christ and realize the Christ as life. Con- 
fession means to assert — to own — to recognize — the soul 
cannot assert and cannot recognize the Christ as life; 
until it comes into the conscious realization of Christ as 
life; and for the soul to come into this conscious realization 
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the serpent — the sex and lust senses of the flesh — and 
every soul that overcomes the mind of the serpent, the 
Christ will impart life to that soul — will confess that soul 
before His Father. The confession is the spiritual reali- 
zation of life. The confession is of the soul and not of the 
senses. "And I say unto you, every one who shall con- 
fess Me — In Me — before men, him shall the Son of Man 
also confess before the Angels of God. But he that de- 
nieth Me before men shall be denied before the Angels of 
God" (Luke 12:8-9). He that overcomes the sensual 
and comes into the spiritual realization of the Christ as 
life, the Christ will confess that soul before His Father; 
impart life to that soul. But he that denieth the Christ 
before men, that is the soul that liveth for the senses and 
lust of the flesh, the Christ will deny life to that soul in 
the Presence of His Father and the Angels. 

All through the Bible confession is a matter of the 
spiritual realization of the soul as life. It is the soul com- 
ing into the conscious realization of the Christ by deny- 
ing the lust of the flesh. Every soul that denies the lust 
of the flesh, has confessed the Christ, and comes into the 
conscious realization of the Christ as life; has confessed 
the Christ as life before men, and He will grant unto that 
soul life — confess that soul before His Father. The con- 
fession is of the soul, it is spiritual not physical. 2 Tim- 
othy 2:12; 1 John 2:28; Daniel 9:20; Romans 10:9; 
John 12:43. 

The Early Christian Church considered the confes- 
sion as spiritual — of the soul and not of the physical and 
of the senses. The Early churches met in the private 
homes and other place of quietude. There was not any 
church buildings and church houses for some three hun- 
dred years after Christ. There, in these private assem- 
blies, the Early Christians confessed the Christ in the 
presence of each other. That is, acknowledged their sins, 
and admitted to each other and in the presence of each 
other that their souls had been born of the spirit — had 
come into the conscious realization of the Christ as life 
by a denial of the lust of the flesh. The Christian that had 
fallen to the lust of the flesh admitted and confessed his 
sins in the presence of the others. These Early Christians 
knew that Christianity meant the overcoming of the 
lust of the flesh, that if the soul would live and have life 



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it must overcome the sensual. They knew that the con- 
fession was spiritual. That it was the soul overcoming the 
sensual — death — and coming into the conscious realiza- 
tion of the Christ as life. "Is any among you sick? 
Let him call for the elders of the church and let them pray 
over him anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord, 
and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord 
shall raise him up, and if he have committed sins they shall 
be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another and 
pray for one another that ye may be healed" (James 
5: 14-16). This was the practice of the Early Christian 
church. The Primitive Christian knew that all sickness 
and diseases were the result of sin — that death itself is 
the result of the death sting of the serpent — lust — sin. 
They knew that the overcoming of sensuality was the 
confession of the Christ and that this confession of the 
Christ — the coming into the conscious realization of the 
Christ as life, by a denial of the sensual, imparted life 
into the soul and healed the sick- and raised the dead. 
There can be no sickness and death without sin within the 
soul. The Primitive Christians were conscious of this 
truth and by virtue of this truth they healed the sick. 
The soul has confessed the Christ as life — that has denied 
the sensual and come into the conscious realization of the 
Christ as life — that soul has had life imparted to it, for the 
Christ has confessed that soul before His Father. The 
death sting of the serpent has been removed from the con- 
sciousness of that soul and it is alive unto God, and has 
power to heal the sick, and restore sight to the blind. 
The soul that has completely denied the lust of the flesh, 
and is in the perfect conscious realization of God as life 
and spirit, has complete power over sin, disease and the 
death sting of the serpent — lust of the flesh. 

About the third century, the spiritual democracy 
of the Early Christian church began to pass into a sensual 
ecclesiasticism. The simple faith of the Early Christians 
gave away to man-made dogmas. The church ceased to 
be a local democracy and a spiritual institution. It be- 
came adulterated with sensuality and man-made systems 
of government. The presiding officer of the local church 
became a priest. The church government became a part 
of the state and was fashioned and patented after the 
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became adulterated with the sensualism and paganism 
of the Roman Empire. The priesthood became the con- 
trolling force and absolute power of the church. The 
confession of the Early Christians in open assembly and 
in the presence of each other ceased as a part of the 
Christian church. The confession became a private 
audience with the priest. 'The confession of the church" 
was established. Children did not attend the primitive 
church. Matters discussed in the church was sex — sin. 
None but adults attended church. It was not a place for 
children before they reached the age of pubity. The 
primitive Christians understood this truth, but when the 
confession was transferred to a private audience with the 
priest, the children became a part of the church and went 
to confession. Gradually as the church became commer- 
cial and a part of the political systems of the Roman 
Empire, it became sensual and the confession became a 
matter of form. The children were taken into the church 
that they might be raised up by the church, to support 
the church financially when they became of mature 
years. As the church became sensual, the confessions 
became a part of its priestly system, a part of its dogmas 
and decrees. The confession lost its spiritual conception 
as the church became sensual. In the primitive church 
all were priests and priestesses. The soul that overcomes 
the sensual is the true priest. 

The true Christian is he who continuously confesses 
the Christ as life; continually abides in the Christ 
as life; and the Christ will confess that soul unto 
His Father, will grant life unto that soul by removing 
the death sting of the serpent from the soul. The soul 
conceived in sin and shaped in iniquity, cannot know God 
as life until it has confessed the Christ, until it has come 
into the conscious realization of the Christ as life, unto 
the soul. The soul that has confessed the Christ — denied 
the sensual — comes into the conscious realization of life — 
the Holy Spirit— the Holy Life — has come into that soul. 
The Christ has confessed that soul before His Father, and 
the serpent has been removed from that soul. Such a 
soul has overcome the sensual by coming into the con- 
scious realization of the Christ, and the Father through 
the Christ has granted life unto that soul. There can be 
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it denies the sensual — overcomes the mind of the serpent — 
and comes into the conscious realization of the Christ. 
Every soul that confesses the Christ, overcomes the sen- 
sual, and the Father through the Christ, imparts life to 
the soul. This is the true confession— it is the Christian 
confession — the true confession of the Christ — is life unto 
the soul. If every Christian has confessed the Christ — 
has overcome the sensual — has had the death sting of the 
serpent removed from the soul, and has come into the 
conscious realization of the Father as life through the 
Christ who is life. 

The Christ is life — Jesus became the Christ when He 
was anointed, when He received the gift of His Father 
as life; when the Holy Spirit came upon Him, He became 
the Christ — the life. If we would have life, we must come 
into the conscious realization of Him as life, through the 
same power that made Him the life — the quickening 
power of the Holy Spirit — the Holy Life. This life is 
imparted to the soul as the soul overcomes the sensual, 
in mind, thought, and desire. The soul confession of the 
Christ is life to the soul. The soul as it comes into the 
conscious realization of the Christ as life, is resurrected 
to life, and all the essence of the death sting of the ser- 
pent is eradicated from the soul. There can be no con- 
fession of the Christ as life as long as the soul clings to the 
sensual, in mind, thought, and desire. The Christ will 
deny life to the soul before His Father and the Holy 
Angels that clings to the lust of the flesh, in mind, thought 
and desire. To confess the Christ as life, the soul must 
surrender up the lust of the flesh, not only in act, but in 
thought, mind and desire. The soul that confesses the 
Christ as life, He will confess, grant life unto that soul 
before His Father and the Holy Angels. 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 

THE VEIL. 

"And thou shalt make a veil of blue and purple 
and scarlet and fine twine linen, of cunning work, with 
cherubims shall it be made" (Ex. 26:31). The Lord is 
here instructing Moses how to construct the tabernacle. 
The tabernacle was symbolic; it possessed the emblems of 
the law of life — spirit — and the law of death — the senses. 
The Holy of Holies was the Inner Temple, the Temple of 
the soul. The exterior and the outer chamber — the outer 
temple, was the temple of the senses. In the Garden of 
Eden, when man was turned out from the Presence of 
God, cherubims — sensual thoughts — were placed at the 
gate to keep man from re-entering the Garden and par- 
taking of the Tree of Life — spirit. The Tree of Life is 
God as the all life and spirit of the universe ; and man who 
was made in God's image reflected God as the only life. 
When man partook of the lust of the flesh, God cast him 
out from His presence, where he no longer reflected God 
as life, and the thoughts of the flesh poured into the soul 
of man, separating the soul from God as the all life and 
causing the soul to cease to reflect God as life. God 
turned man — the soul that He had made in His image out 
from His presence as spiritual life into the consciousness 
of the senses of the flesh — the sex and lust senses — are the 
cherubims — sensual thoughts and desires — that keep 
man from returning to the presence of God as spiritual life. 
On the altar in the tabernacle cherubims were placed. 
These cherubims were the thoughts of God as Spirit flow- 
ing into the soul, quickening the soul to life and restoring 
it to the image of God as spirit and life. The cherubims 
at the Garden of Eden were the messages of death — 
sensual thoughts and desires. The cherubims on the 
altar are the messengers of life — spirit — the thoughts of 
the divine mind. "And He made a veil of blue and purple 

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and scarlet and fine twine linen, with cherubims, made He 
it of cunning work" (Ex. 36: 35). This was the veil that 
Moses placed in the tabernacle, which separated the 
Outer Temple from the Inner Temple; the temple of the 
senses from the temple of the soul. "Seeing then that we 
have such hope, we use great plainness of speech, and not 
as Moses which put a veil over his face that the children 
of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which 
is abolished. But their minds were blinded, for until this 
day remaineth the same veil untaken away in reading of 
the Old Testament which veil is done away in Christ. 
But even unto this day when Moses if read, the veil is 
upon their hearts. Nevertheless when it shall turn unto 
the Lord the veil shall be taken away. Now the Lord 
is that spirit, and where the spirit of the Lord is, there is 
liberty. But we all, with open face, beholding as in a glass 
the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image 
from glory to glory, even as by the spirit of the Lord" 
(2 Cor. 3: 12-18). When man partook of the forbidden 
fruit — the lust of the flesh — the soul became conscious 
of sin, and the lust and sex senses — the carnal thoughts — 
of the flesh became the veil that separated the soul from 
God, so that the soul could no longer see God face to face, 
and be conscious of Him as life — spirit — and reflect Him 
as life — spirit. All mortal conception and propagation, 
disease and death are on this side of the veil — in the Outer 
Temple — in the senses and of the senses. The cherubims 
that turned man out of the Garden and away from the 
Tree of Life were the carnal and lustful thoughts of the 
flesh flowing into the soul. These carnal and lustful 
thoughts of the flesh, separated the soul from God in 
mind and thought, and consciousness; so that the soul 
did not reflect God as life, but was in outer darkness and 
death. The lust and sex senses is the veil that separated 
the soul from God, that separates the outer temple from 
the inner temple. The man that is living for the lust of 
the flesh, and worshipping the sex of the flesh is in the 
outer temple; and the veil of the lust of the flesh separates 
him from God in mind and thought; as this evil is removed 
by the powc r of the spirit, the soul is quickened to life and 
returns to the image of God ; where it reflects God as life 
and spirit. As long as this veil — carnal thoughts and 
desires — continues to exist in the consciousness of the 



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soul, the soul cannot see God — realize God as spirit and 
life. The soul that worships the lust and sex senses of 
the flesh cannot see God — -cannot be conscious of God as 
spirit and life. The veil is too thick for the soul to pene- 
trate. "And after the second veil the tabernacle which is 
called the holiest of all." Heb. 9: 3. Beyond this veil of 
the lust senses — carnal desires — is the consciousness of 
God as the all life, and the soul that passes from the 
outer temple and penetrates through the veil is quickened 
into life and reflects God as life. "By a new and living 
way which He hath consecrated for us through the veil, 
that is to say His flesh" (Heb. 10: 20). When Jesus died 
upon the cross, the lust and sex senses were crucified. 
The carnal thoughts and desires — that Old Dragon was 
cast out from the consciousness of the souls of men, who 
accept Him as the Christ. The veil between the outer 
and inner temple — the veil that separate the soul from 
God was torn asunder, so that the soul might return 
into the Garden of Eden and see God face to face, and 
reflects God as life. ''Jesus when He had cried again with 
a loud voice, yielded up the Ghost, and behold the veil 
of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bot- 
tom, and the earth did quake and the rocks rent. And 
the graves were opened and many bodies of the saints 
which slept, arose and came out of the graves after His 
resurrection and went into the Holy City and appeared 
unto many" (Matt. 27: 50-53.) When Jesus died on the 
cross the cheribums that were placed at the Garden of 
Eden — the carnal and the lust thoughts of the flesh, which 
turned the soul out of the Garden of Eden, out from the 
presence of God as life, were removed. The veil, the lust 
and sex senses of the flesh that separate the soul from 
God were obliterated and banished from the soul, that 
the soul might return to the Tree of Life and reflect God 
as life. "And the graves were opened." That is the senses 
of the flesh — surrendered to the soul— the thoughts and 
lust of the flesh were removed from the consciousness of 
the soul. And the "Saints which slept arose." That is 
the saints which were asleep to the senses in spirit life, 
were quickened into complete life and came forth from 
the senses — the grave — into the Holy City — into the 
City of Life, into the City of Soul Purity. These saints 
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into the image of God and reflected Him as life. They were 
in the Holy City — in the City of Spirit and Purity. All 
who are living in the outer temple and worshipping the 
lust of the flesh have their spiritual eyes closed and can- 
not see God. The lust and sex senses of the flesh consti- 
tute an impassible chasm between them and God. They 
are blind spiritually. All who have had the veil removed 
can see God and are conscious of God as life. Vail is from 
the Anglo-Saxon Avail, meaning to let down, and from 
the Latin Ad and Vallis — a valley, and spiritually speak- 
ing means the valley of ' 'doubt' ' — the religion of the 
senses. As the vail is rent from the vision of the soul, we 
go upon the mount of spiritual understanding, as did the 
Christ upon the Mount of Transfiguration — upon the 
Mount of Transfiguration the Christ had overcome the 
vail of the lust and sex senses of the man Jesus. As we 
become sensual the vail becomes thicker and the cloud 
of spiritual doubt more dense, and we fail to see and to 
understand God as life. Veil, the synonym for vail comes 
from the Latin Vellum and means a covering, to intercept. 
The sex and lust senses covers up and intercepts the vision 
of the soul — prevents the soul from realizing God as 
spirit. We must overcome the sensual to realize God as 
spirit. All sin — evil — sickness and disease are in the 
outer temple — the temple of the senses. Sensuality is 
the father of all sin and disease. Beyond the veil of the 
senses, the carnal thoughts and desires of the flesh is life. 
In the Inner Temple — the Temple of Spirit — there is 
neither sin, disease or death. All constitutional diseases 
of the human body originate in the mortal mind — in the 
sex and lust senses, and are either the direct or the indirect 
results of private diseases. They are either the product 
or the bi-product of gonorrhoea and syphilis. "For this 
cause thou shall die." When people cease to be sensual, 
they will cease to be sick. When man shall have overcome 
sensuality, he will heal the sick and make the lame walk. 
When the "veil is rent in twain from top to bottom," the 
soul sees God, and knows God as life, and has the realiza- 
tion of God as life — it can cast out the mind of the serpent, 
and heal the sick. 

"And till Moses had done speaking with them, he 
put a veil over his face, but when Moses went in before 
the Lord to speak to Him, he took the veil off until he 



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came out. And he came out and spake unto the children 
of Israel that which he was commanded. And the chil- 
dren of Israel saw the face of Moses that the skin of Moses 
shown and Moses put the veil upon his face again until 
he went to speak with Him" (Ex. 34: 33-35). When Moses 
went upon Mount Sanai to speak to God face to face, he 
removed the veil. He could not see God face to face unless 
the veil was removed. Moses speaking to the Lord face 
to face was the language of the spirit. The carnal thoughts 
and desires of the flesh had to be removed from the soul 
of Moses before he could commune with God in the lan- 
guage of the spirit. The vail is the symbol of the lust 
senses of the flesh, and soul cannot see God face to face 
till this vail is removed. Mount Sinai was symbolic, it 
was the symbol of Moses going up into the mount of 
spiritual understanding where he could speak to God face 
to face in the language of spirit. For the soul to go up into 
this mountain of spiritual understanding where it can see 
God face to face and reflect God as life, the veil of the lust 
senses of the flesh must be removed from the conscious- 
ness of the soul. But when Moses returned from the 
Mount and spoke to the children of Israel, he placed the 
veil over his face. They were in the valley of spiritual 
understanding. The veil of the lust senses of the flesh 
still blinded their vision; Moses' face shown with the 
spiritual light of God and they were not prepared spirit- 
ually to behold his face as it reflected the Glory and the 
Light of God as life. He placed the veil over his face while 
he spoke to the children of Israel. When Moses returned 
to speak to the Lord he removed the veil. None can see 
God face to face and have the spiritual understanding 
of life and reflect Him as life unless the veil has been re- 
moved. On Mount Calvary when Jesus gave up the Ghost, 
the veil was rent from top to bottom, in the temple that 
separates the outer from the Inner Temple — that sep- 
arates the temple of the senses and the temple of spirit. 
The veil — carnal thoughts — is the dividing line between 
the temple of the senses, the outer temple; and the temple 
of spirit, the inner temple. 

When the serpent died on the cross, the sex of the 
solar system cried out in darkness, "The earth quaked 
and the rocks rent," and "Darkness was over the earth." 
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consciousness of the soul, and the vision of darkness that 
prevents the soul from seeing God — the -lust of the flesh 
was removed from the soul, so that the soul could enter 
the presence of God — partake of the Tree of Life and 
reflect God as life. The serpent of the universe — sensual- 
ity — surrendered his power of death when Jesus died on 
the cross. That Old Dragon — darkness and death was 
cast out of the consciousness of the souls of men, out 
of the man that God made in His image, that the man 
God made in His image may return to the Garden of Eden 
and partake of the Tree of Life — of God's mind — and 
reflect God as life. Every soul that overcomes the lust 
of the flesh shall have the veil removed, that prevents the 
soul from seeing God, and may return to the presence of 
God and behold Him face to face as the only life and live 
as the child of God — the child of life. Such a soul shall 
have a "revelation" — a conscious realization of God as 
life. The "lifting of the veil," so that the soul may have 
a conscious realization of God as life, is the overcoming of 
the sensual in thought, desire and mind. The sensual 
is the veil that was "rent in twain from top to bottom." 



CHAPTER XXIX. 
MONEY AND SENSUALITY. 

Money is a symbol of sensuality. It secures the 
gratification of the flesh. It types the religion of the senses. 
Judas Iscariot was a devil and he typed the sensual. He 
was symbolic of sensuality and money. He carried the 
"bag." He was the treasurer of the Apostles. The "bag" 
was the money changer. In the Garden of Eden when 
man indulged the senses — the lust of the flesh — he was 
turned out into the earth, into the consciousness of the 
senses and was told by the sweat of his brow he should 
live. That is, he should feed the mortal, the senses — 
carnality and lust from the mortal. Money types the 
power of the mortal. It secures food to feed the sensual 
and to dress and to adorn the pride of the sensual. Acts 
19:24-28; Matt. 15:22-20; Mark 12:38-40; Mark 
14:9-11; 1 Tim. 6: 7-10; Luke 6: 21-26; Luke 12: 15-34; 
Luke 16:13-23; James 5:1-5; Matt. 26:14-47; Mark 
14:15-43; Luke 22:3-44-47; John 13:36; Matt. 27:5; 
Acts 1: 18; Matt. 28: 11-15; Acts 4: 23-27; Acts 5: 10. 

The carnal within man desires money because with 
it he can gratify the sensual. The carnal within a woman 
desires money because she can adorn the sensual. The 
sensual within the male desires money because he can 
grant the sensual of the female every gratification, he 
can adorn the sensual within her and this enables him to 
hold her. Because the male is sensual and possesses that 
which will adorn and gratify the sensual within the female, 
the female will submit to the male. The vanity within 
the female is the sensual within her. Her sex pride is 
sex and sensuality, her vanity is within the lust and sex 
senses. The avarice and greed within the male is the sen- 
sual within him. He is avaricious because he is sensual. 
The little child before it comes into puberty is not avari- 
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after it gets through playing with it. It would rather 
please than to disappoint, but when it comes into puberty 
and the sensual develops, it becomes avaricious, it desires 
money and power. The child becomes selfish at the age 
of puberty. When the male becomes mature, sex powers 
become essentially sensual and selfish. When the female 
comes into maturity sexually she becomes essentially 
vain and frivolous, she is sensual and it takes money to 
gratify her sensual desires. All wealth and commerce is 
based on the sensual within man. Society and govern- 
ments are founded on the sensual. When a man be- 
comes old and his sex powers have decayed, when he be- 
comes non-sensual, he has no desire for greed and avarice, 
if he has become spiritual and overcome the sensual, in 
his mature years. But if he has lived for the sensual in 
his mature years, in old age he is selfish. It is written 
in the soul. As sensuality in thought departs from his 
soul, greed and avarice depart from him. The Christian, 
who has overcome the sensual in thought, and has been 
anointed by his Father, has received the gift of his 
Father as life, is not avaricious. He is not selfish and filled 
with greed, hence Jesus said after he became the Christ, 
after he had overcome the sensual and had been anointed 
by His Father and received the gift of His Father as life, 
that, 'The Son of Man hath not where to lay His head." 
He had no earthly home after He became the Christ, and 
He needed none, for He was a citizen of His Father's 
Kingdom. His home was not in the senses, but in Spirit 
life. The Early Christians, after the resurrection of the 
Christ and on the Day of Pentecost, sold all of their 
holdings and earthly possessions and held all things in 
common. As the Holy Spirit came upon them and they 
received the gift of God as life, the selfishness of sen- 
suality and the senses departed from their souls. The greed 
and avarice of the senses were lost to the consciousness of 
the soul, hence they sold all and held all in common. 
Acts 4: 23-37; Acts 4: 10. The true Christian is a true 
Socialist. "He that hath and seeth his brother in need 
hath not the love of God within him/' He is living for 
the gratification of the senses and not for the life of the 
soul. 

Judas Iscariot betrayed the Saviour for money. 
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is daily betraying the Christ within every man. The senses 
betray the soul. The Christ within the man Jesus was 
the God mind within Him; the Mind of the Father which 
He reflected as the Son of the Father. The senses be- 
tray the life of the soul. Judas Iscariot is within every 
man. The sex and lust senses of man is the Judas Is- 
cariot within him. The Christ is within every man — the 
soul made in the image of God — and as the Christ 
overcomes the senses, as the soul overcomes the lusts of 
the flesh, man becomes the child of God. The sensual 
within man is every moment betraying the soul, and cast- 
ing it out from the presence of God — out of the Garden of 
Eden. Judas Iscariot after he betrayed the Saviour 
went out and hanged himself. The sensual within man is 
self-destructive. All sickness and disease are within the 
senses — the carnal mind. The Judas Iscariot within Us 
is every moment destroying us. All the disease and crime 
to which man is heir is the Judas Iscariot within him. 
Money types this Judas Iscariot within men. It secures 
that which gratifies greed, avarice, vanity and lust. After 
the Christ had risen from the grave the guard returned 
into the city and accepted money from the priests, elders 
and scribes to report a lie as to His resurrection. For 
money they said that they had fallen asleep and that 
Jesus' disciples came and stole the body of Jesus while 
they were asleep. For money, man will lie and steal. 
He will betray the Christ within him and be false to the 
Christ within him in order that he may gain that which 
will gratify the senses and the lusts of the flesh — the sen- 
sual within him. 

The Christ within the soul, when man has overcome 
senses and the sensual is true to the soul and will not be- 
tray the God-nature within the soul for the sensual. God's 
command to the Children of Israel was to "Walk in His 
ordinances and statutes." His ''ordinances and statutes" 
are spiritual. His command is for man whom He made in 
His image to overcome the sensual. To walk in His 
"ordinances and statutes" we must walk in the footsteps 
of truth, in the conscious realization of God as life and 
overcome the sensual. The soul that walks in the "ordi- 
nances and statutes" of God has overcome all avarice and 
greed and lust, for such a soul has overcome the sensual. 
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law of life and the law of death — sex and non-sex. The 
same Divine Mind that said to the man made in God's 
image, "Thou shalt not covet," said, "Thou shalt not 
commit adultery." Covetousness — sin — sensuality and 
money are one in essence. Christianity is generosity — 
the abolition of greed from the soul. The Christian is 
he who has overcome covetousness and sensuality. His 
capital is spiritual and not monetary. His investment is 
life and not death. "Thou canst not serve God and 
Mammon" — the spiritual and the sensual, at one and the 
same time. Overcoming the sensual is life. Covetous- 
ness is spiritual death. 

The Master said, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God 
with all thy heart, thy mind and thy soul, and thy neigh- 
bor as thyself," and upon those two commandments 
hang all the law and the commandments. This is the es- 
sence of the Law of Life and the Decalogue of Mount 
Sinai. The same command that said "Thou shalt not 
steal," said, "Thou shalt not covet." He who loves the 
Lord, God, with all his heart, mind and soul, has overcome 
the sensual, and having overcome the sensual, he has 
overcome greed and avarice. He does not covet anything 
that his neighbor has and loves his neighbor as himself. 
Where the sensual prevails in the soul, avarice and greed 
dominates the soul as spiritual death. The soul that has 
overcome the sensual has overcome greed. Love is the 
law of that soul and such a soul has life. He is the child of 
God and loves all of God's children as His brethren. There 
cannot be any spiritual life within the soul until the soul 
has overcome covetousness and the sensual. The soul 
must overcome the senses to know God. 

Jesus, when He went up to Jerusalem, found the Jews 
in the Temple, making merchandise of the House of God 
and He took a scourge of small cords and drove them out 
of the Temple and poured out the changers of money and 
said unto them, "Take these things hence and make not 
My Father's house a house of merchandise" (John 2: 14- 
21). The Temple was symbolic of the body of the Christ. 
It was the House of God. In the Mortal Temple of the 
man Jesus dwelt the Christ that overcame the sex and 
the senses of the man Jesus. The temple in Jerusalem 
was symbolic of the body of the Christ which over- 
come the material body, and the lust and sex 



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senses of the man Jesus. These merchants within the 
Temple were making merchandise of the appetites of the 
senses. They had converted the Temple of God into mer- 
chandise. Men are daily doing this, yielding the spiritual 
unto the senses of the physical, and money secures that 
which gratifies the senses of the physical. The mortal 
mind is deceptive. It is the essence of deceit and of in- 
sincerity. It betrays now and deceives then. The senses 
have no truth within them and the lust and sex senses of 
the flesh are continuously — continually — betraying and 
deceiving the soul. "He also that received the seed among 
the thorns is he that heareth the word and care of this 
world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word and 
he becometh unfaithful." (Matt. 13:22; Mark 4:19; 
Luke 8: 14). The Master here defines the word and the 
lust of the flesh. The Word is God — the Divine Mind — 
the all life of the universe and he who is living in the con- 
scious realization of the Word is a Son of the Father and 
has the life of the Father; but he who is living in the con- 
sciousness of the lust and sex senses and for the lust of the 
flesh, is spiritually dead. The Master here uses riches, 
money, as the symbol of this spiritual death of the soul, 
because money secures that which gratifies the lusts of the 
flesh. "And behold one came and said unto him, good 
Master, what good thing shall I do that -I may inherit 
eternal life, and He said, Unto Him, why callest thou Me 
good? There is none good but One — that is God, but if 
thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. And 
he saith unto Him, which?" Jesus said, "Thou shalt do 
no murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt 
not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness, honor thy 
father and thy mother, thou shalt love thy neighbor as 
thyself." The young man said unto Him, "All these things 
have I kept from my youth up, what lack I yet?" Jesus 
said unto him, "If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that 
thou hast and give to the poor and thou shalt have treasure 
in heaven, and come and follow me." But when the young 
man heard that saying he went away sorrowful for he had 
great possessions. Then said Jesus unto his disciples, 
"Verily I say unto you, that a rich man shall hardly 
enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. And again I say 
unto you, it is easier for a camel to go through 
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enter the kingdom of God" (Matt. 19: 16-24).; 
Mark 10: 23-25; Luke 18: 24.) Here we see that the ten 
commandments is the decalogue of the sex and lust senses. 
'Thou shalt not murder" — all hatred, malice and murder 
is within the sex. "Thou shalt not steal" — all covetous- 
ness is within the sex. "Thou shalt not lie" — all deception 
is within the sex. "Thou shalt not commit adultery" — 
all carnality is within the lust and sex senses; but "Thou 
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" — God is love and he 
who has overcome the lusts of the flesh — the sex — has 
overcome all malice and selfishness, avarice and greed. 
The old, who have lived for the lust of the flesh, and when 
the lust of the flesh fails them still live in sensuality, in 
thought and mind. — Such a soul is still a miser and is sel- 
fish, filled with greed and avarice. The death sting of the 
serpent has written death in the soul. The depraved in 
old age are still the depraved. Every thought of sensual- 
ity and of the senses in the conscious mind has been 
lodged within the soul and the sub-conscious mind. This 
is the book of life and death — the mind of perfect memory 
and every thought of the flesh is recorded in this book, 
within the consciousness of the soul, and the soul awakes 
over there in the same state it is here. The unclean are 
still unclean. Their names are written in the Book of 
Death. Those who have overcome the flesh— sensuality, 
are clean, their names are written in the Book of Life. 
The old, who have overcome the lust of the flesh, in old 
age are sweet and pure, the soul within speaks through the 
eye and the face that life dwells within the soul and not 
death. Such a soul has overcome all avarice and greed, 
hatred and malice, selfishness and death. 

The young man said he had kept all of the com- 
mandments, but Jesus told him that there was one thing 
that he lacked. That he was almost within the kingdom, 
almost ready to give all that is sensual and enter into life 
eternal, and that if he would be perfect, possess life eternal, 
that he must overcome all selfishness — all that is sensual. 
Therefore, He told him to go sell his possessions and give 
to the poor, and come take up his cross and follow the 
Master. Jesus' cross was the overcoming of the sensual 
and He overcame the lusts of the flesh at thirty years of 
age, and after that, He needed neither earthly home, or 
earthly possessions, for He was not living for the gratifi- 



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cation of the flesh, but was living unto life eternal. The 
young man went away sorrowing, because he had great 
possessions. He was not willing to surrender the sensual 
and the pleasure of the senses completely and this was 
necessary for him to have life eternal. If we would possess 
life eternal, we must take up our cross and follow Jesus. 
The cross is the overcoming of the lust of the flesh, and 
the effects of the sensual, avarice, greed, selfishness, 
hatred, malice, jealousy and death. They all originate 
in and come out of the lust and sex senses. This was 
Jesus' cross, and if we would be His disciples, we must 
bear the same cross that He bore — overcome the sensual 
in thought and mind and to do this, we must abolish sel- 
fishness from the soul and greed and avarice from the mind. 
A Christian world would be a social world. Exchange 
in social life would be equivalents and not profits. The 
Early Christian Church for three centuries was a socialistic 
body. The church for three centuries was Christian and 
not pagan. The Early Christians were Christians indeed. 
They lived for the kingdom of the soul and not for the 
kingdom of the flesh. Money is the symbol of the sex and 
lust senses and spiritual death — the symbol of greed — and 
that soul that has overcome the lust of the flesh has 
abolished greed from the consciousness of the soul. 
There can be no life for the soul until the soul overcomes 
all that flows into the consciousness of the soul from the 
senses — avarice, greed, jealousy, selfishness, pride, vanity, 
deceit, hatred, malice and death. The soul that walks in 
the footprints of truth, overcomes every thought that 
flows into consciousness of the soul from the senses 
and has a conscious realization of God as spirit and life, 
that soul is a Christian and keeps the commandments of 
God, and walks in His ''ordinances and statutes/' Peter said 
he had neither gold or silver, but in the name of the Lord 
Jesus Christ, he commanded the lame to walk. The fact 
that Peter had overcome the sensual, and did not 
worship the sensual enabled him to make 
the lame to walk, and to raise the dead. Money is the 
root of all evil. That is, it the symbol of the power of the 
sensual — money is the god of senses. When we overcome 
the sensual in thought, we overcome the greed, and we 
are Christlike. 



CHAPTER XXX. 

PRIDE AND HUMILITY. 

"Whosoever, therefore, shall humble himself as this 
little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of 
heaven" (Matt. 18:4). The little child has no sex con- 
sciousness. It has inherently sex nature, but not sex 
consciousness. The overcoming of the sex senses is spirit- 
ual life unto the soul. The little child is not conscious of 
sin. The Master therefore used a little child as a symbol 
of the soul that overcomes the lusts of the flesh. We must 
become as unconscious of the lust and sensuality of the 
flesh in mind and thought as a little child to enter into the 
Kingdom of God — the Kingdom of Spirit and Life. All 
pride is within the lust of the flesh, therefore, to enter into 
the kingdom of Spirit and Life, we must become humble 
in spirit and mind. "Whosoever shall exalt himself shall 
be abased and whosoever shall humble himself shall be 
exalted. But woe unto you scribes and Pharisees and 
hypocrites, for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven — king- 
dom of life — against men for ye neither go in yourselves 
neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in" (Matt. 
23: 12-14). The pride of the-Pharisee was a matter of the 
senses — sex exultation. "For I say unto you that except 
your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the 
scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in nowise enter into the 
kingdom of heaven" (Matt. 5:20). "He that exalteth 
himself shall be abased." Self-esteem is within the sex. 
The boy at puberty has great self-esteem. He is proud 
and selfish. The girl at puberty becomes vain and 
frivolous. This is all of the flesh, within the lust and sex 
senses. He that humbleth himself and overcomes the 
senses of the flesh shall be greatest in the kingdom. But 
he who serves the senses and becomes exalted shall be 
abased spiritually. "Yea, all of you be subject unto one 
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the proud and giveth grace to the humble. Humble your- 
selves therefore unto the mighty hand of God, that He 
may exalt you in due time" (1 Peter 5: 5-6). Grace is the 
gift of God as life. All life is within God as the universal 
life and grace is the quickening of the soul from the death 
of the flesh. His gift is life. The death of the soul is 
within the consciousness of the lust of the flesh. Peter 
said, "Be clothed with humility," that is, overcome the 
lust of the flesh — which is pride — for "God resisteth 
the proud and giveth grace to the humble." The "hum- 
ble" are those who have overcome the lust of the flesh 
and unto these God giveth His grace — His mind as life 
to the soul — a conscious realization of Himself unto them 
as life. "Love not the world, neither the things that are 
in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the 
Father is not in Him. For all that is in the world, the lust 
of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, 
is not of the Father, but is of the world, and the world pass- 
eth away and the lust there of, but he that doeth the will of 
God abideth forever" (1 John 2, 15-17). The term 
"world" here means the lust of the flesh — sensuality. 
Jesus said He had overcome the world — that is the lust 
of the flesh — sensuality. He never became the Christ 
until He overcame the world — the lust of the flesh. Then 
He became the Christ and could do all things in the name 
of His Father. Neither can we become Christians in 
truth and in deed until we overcome the sensual — the lust 
of the flesh. He told His disciples to go and preach His 
gospel to all nations and He would be with them to the 
end of the world. The Greek term used which is trans- 
lated "world" means age — to the end of the Satanic 
reign — until the end of the reign of the flesh— unto the end 
of the reign of the serpent that appeared in the Garden of 
Eden and deceived Adam and Eve. John says, in the pas- 
sage here quoted, "That this reign of the world — the 
flesh — the serpent, sensuality and lust shall pass away, 
but he that overcometh it and doeth the Will of God 
abideth forever — for he shall have life." John compares 
the lust of the flesh to pride. He says, "The lust of the 
flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not 
of the Father," but of the world — of the flesh — lust and 
sensuality. "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye 
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Whosoever, therefore, will be a friend of the world is the 
enemy of God. Do ye think that the Scriptures saith in 
vain, the spirit that dwelleth in us, lusteth to envy? 
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God re- 
sisted the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. 
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and 
he will flee from you" (James 4: 5-7). James here makes 
adultery, fornication, lust and pride one in essence. 
They are all inherently within the lust and sex senses of 
the flesh and are spiritual death to the soul. "God resisteth 
the proud but giveth grace unto the humble/ ' He that is 
living within the consciousness of the senses and the pride 
of the flesh is spiritually dead, but he who has overcome 
the pride of the flesh, lust and sensuality, is humble in 
soul, mind and thought, and God giveth him "grace," 
spiritual life is life unto the soul— a conscious realiza- 
tion of God within the soul as life. Jesus had this con- 
scious realization of His Father as life, and He was humble. 
On the last night in the upper chamber before the cruci- 
fixion, after the supper, He took the towel to wash His 
disciples' feet, as the symbol that He had overcome all — 
the flesh — and therefore was the essence of humility. 
Peter said the Master could not wash his feet, but the 
Master told Peter unless He washed his feet, Peter had 
no part with Him and Peter cried out "Lord not My feet 
only, but also my hands and my head" (John 13:9). 
The Master washed the feet of His disciples that He might 
give them a living example of humility. He had over- 
come the flesh in all things and was the essence of humility 
and the essence of life eternal and He told them to wash 
each others feet, as an example of humility. We must 
become humble if we would live, overcome the pride of the 
flesh — lust and sensuality — if we would come into pos- 
session of life eternal. And He said, "That which cometh 
out of a man is that which defileth a man, for from within, 
out of the heart of man, proceedeth evil thoughts, adul- 
teries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wick- 
edness, deceit, liciviousness, and evil eye, blasphemy, pride, 
foolishness, all these evil things come from within and 
defile the man" (Mark 7: 20-23). Evil here is the same 
evil that Adam and Eve came into possession — knowl- 
edge of good and evil — in the Garden of Eden, when they 
partook of the forbidden fruit. This evil is the lust of the 



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flesh. Jesus here said it is this evil within man — lust — 
sensuality — the lust and sex senses, which produces covet- 
ousness, deceit, thefts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 
blasphemy, foolishness and pride. To overcome this evil — 
the lust of the flesh — is to overcome all of these sins — 
pride. There can be no true humility until the soul has 
overcome sensuality and there can be no spiritual life 
within the soul until the soul has overcome the evil — 
lust of the flesh — in mind and thought. Jesus at thirty 
years of age overcame the evil that opened the eyes of 
Adam and Eve in the Garden — the lust of the flesh, and 
was therefore humble, and was led "like a lamb to the 
slaughter, and opened not His mouth," that we through 
Him as the Christ, by walking in His footsteps of truth 
might overcome the pride of the flesh and have life eter- 
nal, the conscious realization of God, the Father, as life. 



CHAPTER XXXI. 

MULTIPLY, REPLENISH AND SUBDUE THE 

EARTH. 

And God blessed them and God said unto them, 
"Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and sub- 
due it" (Gen. 1: 28). This passage of Scripture has been 
perverted by Scholastic Theology in order to deify the 
flesh, and sex worship. Scholastic theology has given it 
the opposite meaning to the idea intended to be conveyed, 
in order to justify the indulgence of lust and the deifica- 
tion of sensuality. The dogmas of scholastic theology 
have construed this passage of Scripture to mean to multi- 
ply and to reproduce the corporal and mortal man through 
lust. It has been quoted as authority for mortal concep- 
tion and mortal propagation. It is the basic authority 
upon which scholastic theology relies for mortal con- 
ception and propagation. This is not the idea intended 
to be conveyed. The idea is spiritual. The increase 
demanded is a spiritual increase and the fruit commanded 
to be brought forth, is spiritual fruition. And the "earth" 
to be replenished and subdued is the flesh. Mary subdued 
the flesh when she conceived Jesus, and all increase 
originally was intended to have been of spirit, by the 
divine mind, and not by the lust of the flesh. Mortal and 
corporal man had not pre-existed when God made man, 
and man therefore could not "replenish" corporal man, 
but sin had existed in the fallen beings and man that God 
made in His image could "replenish" sin with right- 
eousness, and subdue the earth— the flesh. And God said, 
"Let us make man in our image and after our likeness" 
(Gen. 1:26). "So God created man in His own image, 
in the image of God created He him" (Gen. 2: 27). God 
is spirit — life — and the man that He created is spiritual, 
And He created him in the likeness of God and man re- 
flected God as life. The man that God created did not 

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have any inherent life within himself, but he was made in 
the image of God and reflected God as life. God made 
man, He did not beget man. There is a difference between 
the man made in God's image and the man begotten of 
the flesh. The man made in God's image is spiritual and 
reflects God as life and has no sex nature; there is no sex 
in soul life, but the man begotten of the flesh is corporal 
and of mortal conception. He is male and female. He 
is of the earth and is earthly — material — the senses — not 
spiritual. He is the unreal and not the real. He reflects 
mortality, the carnal — the senses — and not the divine 
mind of God as life. This corporal man who is begotten 
of a woman was taken from dust and unto dust he shall 
return. He is the "earth" of the Bible, and he is the man 
— the flesh — the earth — that the man made in God's 
image was told to subdue, and to have dominion over. 
The dominion that was given unto the man made in God's 
image over the lower creation was a spiritual dominion. 
All of God's creation is spiritual and reflects God as life, 
but man was made of a higher spiritual nature. He was 
made in the image of God, and was given dominion over 
all other creations — the fish of the sea, the fowls of the 
air, and every living thing that breathed upon earth — 
in the flesh. This dominion did not become a mortal and 
physical dominion until after the fall. Then God turned 
man out into the earth — into the senses — into the flesh — 
that is, drove the man made in God's image out of God's 
presence as life, into that state of consciousness of the 
flesh where he did not reflect God as life, and into the 
consciousness of the flesh where he reflected the mortality 
— the senses — the conception of the male and female of the 
mortal creation — where he reflected darkness and death. 
Then God cursed the earth — the senses— that is cursed the 
flesh and told man by the sweat of his face he should live. 
Then man's dominion over the lower creatures became a 
mortal dominion. The lower animals were not made in the 
image of God, and therefore had no consciousness of sin. 
Mortal and corporal propagation was not a sin to them. 
It is in violation of spirit, and they die, but they are not 
conscious of sin as they are not made in the image of God. 
When God made man in His image He blessed him — 
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manded him to be fruitful spiritually and to increase 
spiritually, and to replenish the flesh, with spiritual under- 
standing and to subdue it — the flesh. This command, 
the second Adam, the Christ executed. There was not 
any mortal conception and propagation commanded 
until after the fall. Then God said, "The woman should 
be subject unto the man," and this subjection is a sex 
subjection. That is, the woman should submit to the man 
sexually, and conceive and bring forth children as a result 
of sin, and the man shall cleave unto her and their flesh 
shall be one as result of sin, and that she shall bring forth 
children in travail, pain and sorrow as result of sin; This 
mortal conception and propagation is the result of sin. 
This sex subjection of the woman to the man is the result 
of sin. The female yielded first to the serpent and the 
greater sin is hers. The male yielded to the temptation of 
the female and for this cause he shall cleave unto her as the 
result of sin. Their flesh became one as the result of sin 
and she conceives and they propagate as the result of sin, 
and this conception and propagation is death to the soul, 
spiritually. It is darkness and night — death — and the 
soul must be born of the spirit — restored to life, before 
it can see God and reflect Him as life, as the result of 
sin. When God made man sin existed. The mind of the 
serpent — sex — was in all mortal creation. The angels 
had rebelled against God and had been cast out of His 
presence and all mortal creation reflected their minds — 
sex — the darkness and death, sin — sex — which pervaded 
and prevailed in all the solar system and all natural crea- 
tion is non-spiritual and non-real and death, and does not 
exist in the presence and consciousness of God as life. 
When God made man as His image and consecrated him 
and pronounced him holy, He commanded him to retain 
this holy state and be fruitful spiritually and not partake 
of the darkness, sin and death of the spiritual beings who 
had been cast out of God's presence, but to replenish 
the earth — the flesh — the darkness and night, with light 
and life, and to subdue the earth — the senses— the flesh — 
and to have dominion over the earth — flesh — and to over- 
come darkness and night with light and life; until man 
disobeyed this command of God he was not conscious of 
sin — sex — death. When man disobeyed, then he became 
mortal and was banished from God's presence as life, 



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and ceased to reflect God as life. God turned him out of 
His presence as life into the earth — the senses. Turned 
the soul out into the consciousness of darkness and death 
of the flesh — the senses — sex. And God cursed the earth. 
That is, cursed the flesh as death. The earth and the flesh 
are one and the same — the mortal conception of darkness 
and death. "Ye shall make no idols or graven images 
neither rear ye up a standing image, neither shall ye set 
up any image of stones in your land to bow down under it, 
for I am the Lord your God" (Lev. 26: 1). Here God com- 
manded the children of Israel to worship Him only as God, 
and not the senses. Israel is the soul — the man made in 
God's image. Israel is the soul restored to life, and the 
soul restored to life reflects God as life. "God is the God 
of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, He is the God of the living 
and not of the dead." He is the God of every soul that 
has been restored to life, and reflects Him as life, and not 
of the souls that are serving the lust of the flesh and are 
worshipping the lust and sex senses as god. The souls that 
have been restored to life — resurrected from the death of 
the senses — reflect God as life and constitute the church. 
They are the Ecclesia — the called out from death to life — 
the church. They have been called out of darkness and 
death of the senses to light and life. They constitute the 
Church of the living God; they are the church, and not 
ecclesiastical decrees and dogmas, and monarchial systems 
of man-made church government. God was here speaking 
to Israel — the church — the souls that had been restored 
to life and that reflected Him as life. And He told them 
they should make no idols or graven images and should not 
bow down to them — the senses— that is, they should not 
be guilty of sex worship, but should bring forth spiritual 
fruit to Him as God. "For I am the Lord your God," the 
Only Mind and Life, and that there is no life in the senses, 
and the worship of the senses is death. This is the same 
fruit that the man God made in His image was commanded 
to bring forth — spiritual fruit in reflecting the life of God, 
and not the mortal fruition of darkness and death — the 
mortal conception of the senses — the mortal conception 
and propagation. "And God heard their groanings and 
God remembered His covenants with Abraham, with 
Isaac and with Jacob, and God looked upon the children 
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Here God heard the groaning of His children, His spiritual 
children, as they groaned and mourned in the flesh, and 
He remembered that they were the seed of Abraham, 
Isaac and Jacob — the seed of life — the spirit — and not of 
death — the senses. And He had respect unto them, 
gave them spiritual increase and spiritual understanding, 
so that they could reflect Him as life, and bring forth spir- 
itual fruit unto Him as life; the same fruit that He com- 
manded the man made in His image originally to bring 
forth. "And the Lord was gracious unto them and had 
compassion on them and had respect unto them because 
of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and 
would not destroy them neither cast them out of His 
presence as yet" (2 Kings 13:23). He would not cast 
the children of Israel — His children — out of His presence, 
but commanded them to return unto Him and to worship 
Him as God and to bring forth spiritual fruit unto Him 
and to live as His children; and the Lord said that He 
could not blot out the name of Israel from among 
the heathen but He would save them by the hand of 
Jeroboam, the son of Joab. Here the Lord still saved 
the children of Israel and commanded them to bring 
forth spiritual fruit unto Him; to forsake evil, the sin 
of the flesh — the senses — sex indulgence and sex worship. 
To leave off idolatry, and to worship Him as God and live; 
to bring forth the same spiritual fruit, that man was orig- 
inally commanded to bring forth. "Neither shall thy 
name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be 
called Abraham, for a father of many nations have I 
made thee and I will make thee exceedingly fruitful, and 
I will make nations of thee and kings shall come out of 
thee, and I will establish my covenants between Me and 
thee. And thy seed after thee, in their generations for 
an everlasting covenant to be a God unto thee and unto 
thy seed after thee" (Gen. 17: 5-8). The covenant that 
God made with Abraham was a spiritual covenant. 
When Abram's name was changed to Abraham, he was 
elevated in spiritual understanding. And his seed was 
to bring forth this fruit of spiritual life and reflect God as 
life — Abraham's seed are the souls that have been resur- 
rected from the senses — restored to life — and their fruit 
is spiritual. It is the same fruit that the man originally, 
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bring forth — the fruit of spiritual understanding and 
spiritual life and to reflect God as life. (See Deut. 7: 12- 
16, 28:1-2; Matt. 3:7-10; John 8:31-39; Neimiah 
9:24, 107; Ps. 38; Acts 13:26; Romans 4:1, 11:6; 
Matt. 7:13-21; Matt. 12:32-34; Jeremiah 12:16; 
Luke 7:43-45; John 4:36; John 15: 16; Romans 7:4; 
2 Cor. 9:10; Gal. 5:22; Col. 1:6; Heb. 12:11; James 
3 : 17. After the fall — after man disobeyed and yielded to 
the serpent — the lust of the flesh — the soul was cast out 
of God's presence as life into outer darkness — into the 
consciousness of the senses — and lost the image of God 
as life; and all mortal conception and propagation is 
through sin — the senses — and reflects darkness and death, 
and the soul to reflect God as life has to be restored to 
life — resurrected from the death of the senses. Then it 
becomes a child of God, a child of life and not a child of 
the flesh — a child of death. To bring forth fruit unto 
God as life, after the soul is resurrected to life, it must 
worship God as life and cease to worship the flesh — sex — 
the senses. It must cease sex worship and return unto 
God and worship God as the only True Life. It must 
bring forth fruition and spiritual understanding and in- 
crease in spiritual wisdom and life; and refill the flesh 
and subdue it, with the life and light of God and not yield 
to the flesh. To continue in sex worship is to bring forth 
the fruits of the flesh — darkness and death. "But when He 
saw many of the Pharisees and Saducees come unto His 
baptism, He said unto them, Oh generation, offspring 
of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to 
come? Bring forth therefore fruits, meet for repentance" 
(Matt. 3: 8-9). Vipers here is the same as the serpent in 
the Garden — the lust of the flesh, and "generation" means 
offspring. Mortal man is the conception of the serpent, 
and the Saducees and Pharisees were living for the serpent. 
They were sex worshippers. And John declared unto them 
to flee from the wrath to come, from the serpent, and to 
bring forth fruits for repentance — fruits of spirituality 
and spiritual life. The same fruit as man was originally 
commanded to bring forth — life and not death. "For a 
good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit. The spirit 
does not bring forth the lust of the flesh. Neither does 
a corrupt tree — the senses — bringeth forth good fruit — 
spirit. For every tree — the senses bring forth the death — 



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is known by its own fruit. For of thorns men do not 
gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. 
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth 
forth that which is good — life; and an evil man — the 
senses — out of the evil — the senses — treasure of his heart 
bringeth forth that which is evil — death. For out of the 
abundance of his heart his mouth speaketh" (Luke 6: 43- 
45.) Here we have the fruit of the spirit and the fruit of 
the flesh defined. The fruit of the serpent — lust and sen- 
suality is evil, darkness and death; the fruit of the spirit 
is life and light. It was this fruit of life that man was 
originally commanded to bring forth, and not the fruit of 
the flesh — death. "And he that reapeth receiveth wages 
and gathereth fruit unto life eternal" (John 4: 36). This 
is the fruit — the fruit of life eternal that man was com- 
manded when God made man in his image, to bring forth, 
and not the fruit of mortal conception and propagation, 
darkness and death. "Ye have not chosen me, but I 
have chosen you, and ordained you that ye should go 
and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain" 
(John 15: 16). This is the same fruit that man whom God 
made in His image was commanded to bring forth, 
spiritual fruit — life. And man must finally bring forth this 
fruit, if he would have life eternal. Mary brought forth 
this fruit when she conceived Jesus. John the Baptist, 
while not conceived completely of the spirit, was of holy 
parents, hence Jesus said there was not a greater born 
of a woman than John the Baptist, yet the least in the 
Kingdom of Heaven was greater than John the Baptist. 
John the Baptist's spiritual power was due to the holy life 
of parents. Luke 1:5-50. When man yielded to the 
serpent — sex and lust of the flesh — and partook of the 
fruit of death, he became mortal, and he must be restored 
to life, to the image of the Father and bring forth the fruit 
that he was originally commanded to bring forth — the 
fruition of life, if he would have eternal life. Also see 
Romans 7:4; 2 Cor. 9: 10; Gal. 5:22; Col. 1:6; Heb. 
12: 11; James 3: 17. Man must be redeemed from the 
earth— the flesh — the senses — from the earth — sensuality, 
before he can bring forth this fruit of eternal life, and re- 
flect God, who is life. "And I looked and lo a Lamb stood 
on the Mount Zion and with him an hundred and forty 
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their foreheads. And I heard a voice from Heaven as the 
voice of many waters and as the voice of great thunders 
and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their 
harps; and they sang as it were a new song before the 
throne and before the four beasts; and the elders, and no 
man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and 
four thousand which were redeemed from the earth. 
These are they which were not denied by a woman; for 
they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb 
wheresoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among 
men, being the first fruits unto God and unto the Lamb. 
And in their mouth was found no guile for they are with- 
out fault before the throne of God." (Rev. 14: 1-5). 
The earth here, which the saints were redeemed from is 
the flesh — the senses — the mind of the serpent, lust and 
sensuality. The same earth that the man who was made 
in God's image was commanded to subdue. But man 
failed to execute this command and yielded to the ser- 
pent — the lust of the flesh and partook of death, and mor- 
tal man returned to death. The redeemed are those who 
have been resurrected and restored to life from the death 
sting of the serpent — the earth — the senses — the lust of 
the flesh. These are they which are not defiled by woman, 
for they are the virgins — spiritually they are pure and 
reflect God as life; and bring forth spiritual fruit unto 
Him as life. They think again, they think the thoughts 
of spirit and not the thoughts of the senses — the lust of 
the flesh. The man that God made in His image was 
originally pure; he was a virgin spiritually and was com- 
manded to increase spiritually, and to overcome the flesh — 
the earth — the senses — and to bring forth spiritual fruit 
and life to the Glory of God. In the mouth of the re- 
deemed there is no guile — no deception. The deception 
was in the mouth of the serpent — the senses — and he 
deceived Eve. All deception is in the lust of the flesh — 
in the senses — in the serpent. For Satan is the father of 
liars; but those who have overcome the flesh — the senses 
and have become virgin spiritually are pure before God 
and the Lamb. The earth and the flesh — the senses — 
are one and the same and convey by the same conception — 
sex — the mind of Satan. All mortal creation — the solar 
system, the vegetable and animal kingdoms, are con- 
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20:9; 2 Peter 3:7; Zeph. 3:8; Mica 1:4. "But the 
heavens and the earth which are now by the same word 
are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of 
judgment and perdition of ungodly men" (2 Peter 3:7). 
God cursed the earth — the flesh — for sin — sex lust — and He 
turned the man whom He made in His image out into the 
earth, into the consciousness of the senses — flesh and 
mortality — for having violated God's commands and for 
having failed to bring forth spiritual fruit unto God and to 
reflect God as life, for not subduing the earth— the senses — 
the flesh. All that is here is sin. The sores on the persons 
of the human family is sin. God cursed the flesh — lust. 
All that is in mortal creation is sin, and all that is in mor- 
tal creation is controlled by the sex, and sex worship is the 
death of the soul made in God's image. But a new heaven 
and a new earth shall appear, when the man whom God 
created in His image has been restored to life — resurrected 
from the curse of the flesh — and shall bring forth the fruit 
of life unto God as the child of God and reflect God as life. 
The spiritual creation will appear as real to the children 
of God. The heavens and the earth are controlled by 
Satan — sex — and where sex is king, death is. Darkness and 
death, shall pass away as men overcome sin, and a spirit- 
ual earth and heaven — life — shall be ushered in. Look- 
ing for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God 
wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and 
the elements shall melt with fervent heat, nevertheless 
we, according to the promise look for a new heaven and a 
new earth, where dwelleth righteousness — life. 2 Peter 
3 : 12-13 ; Isaiah 65 : 22 ; Rev. 21 : 1-27. In this new heaven 
and new earth, the man that God made in His image and 
as life, will be fruitful and multiply and bring forth 
spiritual fruition to the glory of God as the child of God. 
Mortal conception and propagation will continue 
until men overcome sin, to the end of time; and the new 
birth of the spirit will be necessary for the soul to realize 
God as life. This mortal existence could not exist with- 
out sin. It is the result of sin. It does not reflect God's 
mind as the all Holy Life and Mind of the Universe. God 
made man in His image, not a corporal man of flesh and 
blood. The corporal man of flesh and blood is the mortal 
conception of sin and death — the conception of the senses. 
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beings, who reflected Him as life and brought forth spirit- 
ual fruit unto Him as life and unto His glory and honor, 
until rebellion took place in the land of the spirit and life. 
It was God's purpose in creating man that he should 
overcome this rebellion; but man yielded to sin that then 
existed, the mind of the angels which had been cast out 
from God's presence, and mortal propagation is the result. 
Sin, sickness and death is the result of the man that God 
made in His image having yielded to the lust of the flesh. 
When man shall cease to sin, mortal conception and propa- 
gation will come to an end. During this "reign of sin," 
man will continue mortal conception and propagation. 
But when the Christ, the lamb, shall usher His kingdom 
in as life, the man made in God's image, who has been 
called out of darkness into light, from death unto life, 
will reflect God as life. The children of the resurrection 
will have life. A new heaven and a new earth will appear. 
Sin, sex and mortality will then disappear .and God's 
spiritual creation will be fruitful, increase and multiply 
spiritually and bring forth spiritual fruit, life, to the Glory 
of God, as the all life throughout eternity. 

The Lord God never multiplied the woman's sorrows 
and conception and never said she should bring froth 
children — corporal man — and that her desire should be 
unto her husband — a sex desire and a sex submission, and 
that he should rule over her, until the lust of the flesh 
had been indulged; and corporal conception and propa- 
gation by the power of lust is the result. (Gen. 3: 16). 
When this age of sin — the reign of Satan — sex — shall have 
ceased, the reign of the Christ, who overcame sin— sex — 
the lust of the flesh — shall be ushered in, and all the souls 
that have overcome sin — the lust of the flesh — shall live 
and reign with Him and bring forth the fruit of eternal 
life — the same fruit which the man that God made in 
His image was originally commanded to bring forth to the 
Glory of God and which Mary brought forth when she 
spiritually conceived Jesus. We must not confuse God's 
all and infinite wisdom with our finite limitations. He 
knew from all eternity that man, that He had made in 
His image would sin and partake of the mind of the fallen 
spirits, and therefore, the mortal and corporal creation 
was brought into consciousness and existence to meet the 
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now with God, but from the viewpoint of our finite 
minds there is a past, present, and future; and the male 
and female of the mortal creation were only joined together 
as one flesh after they had committed the sin. But in 
God's infinite mind, the male and female o f mortal 
creation were joined together as one from all eternity 
on account of sin; and they must overcome the sex of the 
mortal creation, which makes them as one, for the man 
made in God's image to inherit eternal life. Since sin 
came into existence, mortal propagation must and will 
continue as a result of sin, and the soul, which is spiritual, 
must overcome sin — the lust of the flesh — to become con- 
scious of God as life. The soul must be begotten of the 
spirit, born again to become a child of God — a child of life 
— for all that is conceived of the flesh — of the senses — is 
death. As all conception is of the lust of the flesh, the 
soul must be born again to see God — must have life 
imparted to it. It is dead in sin and to the lust of the 
flesh. It is conceived by the lust of the flesh — by the 
power of death. If the first man and woman had not 
yeilded to the lust of the flesh, all conception would have 
been spiritual, by the power of the divine mind, and there 
would have been no death. Jesus was conceived by the 
power of the Holy Spirit — holy life — the divine mind — 
and therefore had complete power over sin, the grave 
and death — the serpent — the lust of the flesh — death 
did not enter into His conception and therefore sin and 
death had no power over Him. If all women were as 
pure as Mary, there would be no marrying and giving 
in marriage, and all conception would be spiritual, and 
the Kingdom of God — the Kingdom of Life — would be 
at hand, and the lust of the flesh — the kingdom of death — 
would be abolished, and man would have complete domin- 
ion over the earth — the flesh — as he was originally com- 
manded to do. 



CHAPTER XXXII. 

THE CHRIST AND HIS HEALING POWER. 

Jesus became the Christ when He was anointed — 
when He received the Gift of His Father as life. This 
Gift of God as life, eradicates the mind of the serpent and 
death sting of the serpent— the lust of the flesh — from 
the consciousness of the soul. He was conceived of the 
Holy Spirit, the divine mind, that is, by the mind of God 
which is spirit, rather than by the mind of the serpent — 
the lust of the flesh. "Now the birth of Jesus Christ 
was in this wise: When His mother Mary, was espoused 
to Joseph before they came together, she was found with 
child, of the Holy Ghost" (of the spirit — holy life — divine 
mind) Matt. 1:18; Luke 1:26-35. Mary, mother of 
Jesus, had to be absolutely spiritually pure, to conceive 
Jesus as the Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit — 
the divine mind. She had to overcome the lust of the 
flesh — the carnal mind. She subdued the earth — the 
flesh — and had dominion over the earth — the flesh — and 
brought forth spiritual fruition, as man was originally 
commanded to do. All other conception and propaga- 
tion is of the lust of the flesh. When the Holy Life came 
upon her, the lust of the flesh was eradicated from her 
soul. The Holy Ghost is the Divine Mind revealing itself 
to the soul as life. It is the holy life revealed unto the 
soul. It is the God mind eradicating the mind of the 
serpent and the lust of the flesh from the soul. The soul 
is dead spiritually, by virtue of the lust of the flesh. 
It thinks the thoughts of the lust of the flesh; its desires 
are carnal desires; and all propagation other than that 
of Jesus is of the soul spiritually dead, the lust of the 
flesh. All other corporal propagation is of the lust of the 
flesh. When the Holy Spirit — the Divine Mind — is 
revealed to the soul, the soul is quickened to life, and the 
death sting of the serpent — the lust of the flesh — is 

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eradicated from the soul. The soul that has the divine 
mind revealed to it is made alive, and becomes the child 
of God, and does not think the thoughts of the lust of the 
flesh and desires gratification of the flesh. Mary could 
not have conceived Jesus as a spiritual conception until 
after the Holy Life came upon her. Spiritually she had 
to be awakened to life, from the death sting of the serpent 
and lust of the flesh, to conceive spiritually. When the 
Holy Ghost,the Holy Life, came upon her, the death sting 
of the serpent was eradicated from her soul. She did not 
think the thoughts of the flesh and had no desires of the 
flesh. She was spiritually pure, and her conception was of 
the spirit and not of the flesh, as God intended originally 
that all conception and propagation should be. If all 
women were as spiritually pure as Mary, all conception 
would be spiritual and without the lust of the flesh. 
The increase that God commanded was of the spirit and 
not the increase of the lust of the flesh. Originally, 
before man fell, and partook of the lust of the flesh, God 
intended all conception and propagation to be of the 
spirit and not of the flesh. This was the increase (spir- 
itual) that was to be multiplied and the earth (the flesh) 
that was to be subdued. There was not any conception 
of the flesh until after the fall. Woman was not told 
that she should bring forth children "in sorrow and pain" 
until after the fall. God did not say He would multiply 
her sorrow and conception, until after the fall. Man was 
not told that he should cleave unto the woman until 
after the fall, and woman was not told that she would 
cling unto her husband and be subject unto him sexually 
until after the fall. In God's mind all conception and 
increase was intended to be spiritual, as was the concep- 
tion of Jesus — the Christ. "And in six months the Angel 
Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Gallilee named 
Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was 
Joseph, of the House of David, and the virgin's name was 
Mary. And the angel came in unto her and said, Hail thou, 
that are highly favored, the Lord is with thee. Blessed 
art thou among women. And when she saw him, she 
was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what 
manner of salutation this should be. And the angel 
said unto her, Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favor 
with God. (The Greek reads, graciously accepted of 



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God — spiritual life — she had received grace — the holy- 
life). And behold, thou shall conceive in thy womb and 
bring forth a son and call His name Jesus. And the 
angel answered and said unto her, 'The Holy Ghost shall 
come upon thee and the power of the Highest shall over- 
shadow thee, therefore, also that Holy thing which shall 
be born of thee shall be called the Son of God" (Luke 
1: 26-35. Mary had found favor with God, because she 
had overcome the lust of the flesh, and w having found favor 
with God, had come into the perfect Holy Life. Mary 
said, "My soul doth magnify the Lord" (Luke 1:46). 
She had the Divine Mind revealed to her. And all the 
human race would find favor with God as did Mary, if 
they would overcome the lust of the flesh ; and conception 
and propagation would be spiritual as was Jesus, the 
Christ. Mary was told that she should conceive in her 
womb and bring forth a son because she had found favor 
with God — the life of God. The Holy Spirit came upon 
her — the holy life — the Holy Ghost — would come upon 
all the human race if it would only overcome the lust of 
the flesh in desire and thought and live in the conscious 
realization of the truth of God as life. Mary was spir- 
itually pure and therefore found favor with God — life 
in God — and brought forth the spiritual conception of the 
Jesus, the Christ. 'That Holy thing which shall be born 
of thee shall be called the Son of God" — the Son of Life. 
Jesus was the Son of God — the Son of Life — because he 
was conceived of the Holy Spirit — life — rather than of the 
lust of the flesh — death — that is He was conceived by 
the power of the divine mind rather than by the power of 
the carnal mind. Then said Mary unto the angel, "How 
shall this be, seeing I know not a man?" (Luke 1: 34). 
She was spiritually pure — her soul was in the image of God 
— she could not have conceived this spiritual conception, 
without the divine mind. We would all be the Sons of 
God if we were conceived by the Holy Spirit — the divine 
mind — and not the lust of the flesh — that is, if we were 
conceived by the divine mind and not by the carnal mind. 
If man whom God made in His image, had retained that 
image and not partook of the lust of the flesh, we all 
would have been the Sons of God and regeneration would 
have been unnecessary. We would all have been the 
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whom God made in his image, yielded to the lust of the 
flesh, corporal propagation is the result of the flesh; 
mortal propagation is of the carnal and not of the divine 
mind ; and man must be born of the spirit in order to be- 
come the Son of God. Jesus did not have to be born of 
the spirit in order to become the Son of God, he was 
conceived spiritually and was the Son of God. Jesus 
underwent all the temptations of the flesh, but was not of 
the flesh. Man who is conceived of the flesh and lust of 
the flesh has to be born of the spirit in order to become the 
Son of God — the creation of the spirit. "We are con- 
ceived in sin and shaped in iniquity," by the power of the 
lust of the flesh. Jesus was conceived by the power of the 
spirit — the divine mind, the power of life-— and not of the 
lust of the flesh — death — and therefore was the Son of God 
— the Son of Life. 

He kept the law — the perfect image of His Father, 
and underwent all the temptations of the lust of the flesh 
until thirty years of age. At thirty years of age when 
the sex of the man Jesus, the lust of the flesh, was in its 
maturity, He overcame the lust of the flesh, and the Holy 
Life came upon Him ; He had the power to overcome the 
lust of the flesh, because He was spiritually conceived, 
and was a child of the spirit and not a child of the lust 
of the flesh. Jesus is the only begotten of the Father — 
the only begotten of the spirit — the divine mind. John 
1:18; John 3:8. All other conceptions since the fall 
have been of the lust of the flesh, hence He was able to 
overcome the lust of the flesh and to retain the image of 
His Father as life and as the Son of God. Which were born 
not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will 
of man, but of God. It is the spiritual conception that 
makes us the Sons of God, and we do not become the Sons 
of God — of life, until we are born of the spirit. When 
thirty years of age, when Jesus was in the maturity of the 
sex power, He overcame the lust of the flesh, and the Holy 
Ghost — the Holy Life — came upon Him. Luke 3: 20- 
23; Matt. 3: 12; John 1: 32. Now when all the people 
were baptised it came to pass that Jesus also, being bap- 
tised and praying, the Heaven (the Kingdom of Life) was 
opened and the Holy Ghost descended in the bodily shape 
like a dove upon Him. And the voice came from Heaven 
(from the Kingdom of Life) which said, "Thou are my 



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beloved Son, in Thee am I well pleased" (Luke 3: 22). 
The dove was the symbol of the Holy Ghost — Holy Life — 
the dove is innocent. The serpent in the Garden of Eden 
was the symbol of the lust of the flesh. The serpent is 
wise. The dove is harmless. The serpent is the poison 
of death — the lust of the flesh. The dove here is used 
as the emblem of the Holy Spirit — the Holy Life. The 
Serpent in the Garden of Eden is used as the symbol of 
the knowledge of the senses — sensuality and lust — the lust 
of the flesh is death and the serpent is used as a symbol of 
poison and death. When the Holy Ghost came upon 
Jesus, God declared that He was His beloved Son. The 
Heavens were opened — the Kingdom of Life. As we over- 
come the serpent — the lust of the flesh — death — the 
Heavens — the Kingdom of Life — is opened unto us, 
and the Holy Spirit comes into the soul as life; the Holy 
Life comes upon us and we become regenerated, and the 
children of the spirit — sons of God. When Jesus was 
thus anointed and the Holy Ghost — grace of life — came 
upon Him — when He receiveth the Gift of His Father — 
spirit as life — He became the Christ and went forth to 
preach the Gospel — to preach the Kingdom of Life and 
to heal the sick and to raise the dead. He never healed 
the sick nor opened the eyes of the blind, nor raised the 
dead until He had undergone all temptation of the lust 
of the flesh and kept the perfect law of His Father, and 
had been anointed by the Holy Spirit — had received the 
Gift of His Father, who is spirit, as life. The Christ 
Principle, as spirit and life, is the true life ; and Jesus 
became the Christ when He received this true life, as a 
Gift from His Father. Then He went forth and said, 
' 'Repent ye, for the Kingdom of God (the Kingdom of 
Spirit and Life) is at hand." All four of the gospels 
agree that Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit. Mat- 
thew and Luke narrate the facts as to His spiritual 
conception and Luke records that the Holy thing which 
should thus be born should be called the Son of God" 
— the Son of Life — Luke 1:35. Mark begins his gospel — 
"The beginning of the gospel (the Kingdom of Life) of 
Jesus Christ — the Son of God" (the Son of Life). John 
says, "And the word was made flesh — and dwelt among 
us and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only be- 
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and spirit)." John 1: 14. He was the Son of God — the 
Son of the Divine Mind — spiritual life — because He was 
conceived by the Divine Mind — Spirit — and not by the 
lust of the flesh. He was full of grace — life — truth and 
spirit — because He was conceived by the power of life, 
and not by the death sting of the serpent — the lust of 
the flesh. 

This Kingdom of Heaven — Kingdom of Life and 
Spirit — by which Jesus was conceived, eradicates the lust 
of the flesh — the mind of the serpent — from the con- 
sciousness of the soul and restores the soul to the image of 
God, the Father, and heals the physical man. It restores 
the dead spiritually and physically to life. There is no 
death, without the death sting of the serpent — the lust of 
the flesh. Eradicate the lust of the flesh from the con- 
sciousness of the soul and the soul has life. 

"And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto 
the sea of Galilee and went up into a mountain and sat 
down there. And great multitudes came upon Him, 
having with them those who were lame, blind, dumb, 
maimed and many others, and cast them down at Jesus 
feet and He healed them" (Matt. 15: 29-31). "And 
Jesus went about all the cities and villages 
teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of 
the Kingdom (of life) and healing the sickness and dis- 
ease among the people." Matt. 9: 35; Mark 6:6; Luke 
13:22; Matt. 4: 23. The Kingdom of the Gospel is 
the Kingdom of Life and heals the sick — remo ves the death 
sting of the serpent. The death sting of the serpent has 
no power where the kingdom of the gospel — the King- 
dom of Life — the kingdom of the Divine Mind prevails 
within the soul. The gospel is the tidings — the thoughts — 
of the Divine Mind imparting life to the soul. It is the 
Holy Spirit coming into the consciousness of the soul; 
quickening the soul unto life and removing the death sting 
of the serpent — the lust of the flesh — from the conscious- 
ness of the soul. The gospel is the Divine Mind revealed 
unto the soul and is life to the soul. It is the lifting of the 
veil from the soul, the eradicating of the lust of the flesh 
from the soul. It's the thoughts of the Divine Mind revealed 
to the soul, which eradicates the thoughts of the lust of 
the flesh from the soul. It is the Holy Life, and where life 
is death cannot be. There was no death until the soul 



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felt the death sting of the serpent, until the soul became 
conscious of the lust of the flesh. The Gospel — the Divine 
Mind — revealed to the soul, removes the death sting of 
the serpent and restores the soul to life, to the image of 
God, who is spirit, and heals the sick and raises the dead. 
Jesus made the gospel — the Kingdom of Life within the 
soul — and the healing of the corporal man, one in essence, 
for they are one in essence. There can be no sickness 
and no death without sin— the death sting of the serpent — 
the lust of the flesh in the consciousness of the soul. 
The Divine Mind revealed to the soul as life eradicates 
the lust desires from the soul, restores to life, and the 
diseased physical body to health and raises the dead. 
The Gospel— the Divine Mind — revealed to the soul as 
life, heals both the sick body and the sick soul. 

Sin — the lust of the flesh — the death sting of the 
serpent — makes both body and soul sick, and is death 
to both the spiritual and the material man. Jesus, as 
He went, preached the gospel— the Kingdom of Life — 
the Divine Mind, of His Father unto the sick souls and 
to the sick bodies of men. And this Kingdom of Life 
that He preached, eradicated the lust thoughts and carnal 
desires from the souls of men, and healed them. John 
4:46-54; Mark 1: 23-26; Mark 1:31; Mark 1:40-45; 
Matt. 8: 5-13; Luke 7: 11-17; Matt. 8: 23-37; Matt. 
8: 28-54; Matt. 9:1-8; Matt. 12: 10-13; Matt. 9: 18-26; 
Luke 8:43-48; Matt. 9:27-31; Matt. 9:32-33; John 
5:1-9; Matt. 12: 22-23; Matt. 15: 22-28; Mark 7: 31-37; 
Matt. 15-33:39; Mark 8:22-26; Matt. 17:14-21; 
John 9; Luke 13: 11-17; Luke 14: 14; Luke 17: 11-19; 
John 11; Matt. 20:30-34; Luke 22:50-51. Jesus de- 
clared the Son of Man was the Lord of the Sabbath 
Luke 6: 5; Matt. 12:8; Matt. 12: 10-15. And the same 
power that made Him Lord of the Sabbath, gave Him 
the power to heal the sick and dying soul and the sin cursed 
material body. The Christ within Him — the Holy Life 
made Him the Lord of the Sabbath and this Christ with- 
in Him, gave Him the power by which He forgave sin 
— restored the soul to life and healed the sick and sin 
cursed material body. The Sabbath is symbolic of the 
spiritual rest of the soul — the eternal day of rest wherein 
the soul shall awake within the image of the Father, and 
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Jesus, the Christ, is the Lord of that day of eternal rest; 
and 'There shall be no night/' and no death in that eternal 
day of life John 11: 24-26. The resurrection of the soul 
to life is the real Sabbath day, and the Christ is King of 
that day. Each day (age) recorded in Genesis is symbolic 
— the symbol of each age of a Progressive creation — 
creation was progressive. Life progressed as creation pro- 
gressed. Each day (age) was a higher and more perfect 
creation. Man was the last of this progressive creation, 
and he was made in God's image. This age is the age of 
the Satanic reign — the age of the flesh. Jesus told His 
disciples to go and preach the gospel — life — and He would 
be with them unto the end of the world. The term 
"world" is from the Greek meaning until the "end of the 
age." Until the end of the lust of the flesh— the Satanic 
reign. We are living in this age now. In this day of the 
Satanic reign. As we are restored to life from the death 
sting of the serpent, we pass out from the age of the lust 
of the flesh — the day of the Satanic reign — into the Sab- 
bath day — the day of spiritual rest to the soul. As the 
children of God are resurrected to life from the age of the 
flesh — the Satanic day to spiritual life— to eternal rest — 
they pass to and keep the Sabbath day. The Christ 
will be King of that day and will reign throughout that 
Eternal Age; in that eternal day, He is king of kings and 
Lord of Lords. Everywhere He went on the Sabbath, 
He healed the sick and restored sight to the blind. He 
could not have done otherwise. He is the King of the 
Sabbath — the King of life, and as the Christ forgave sins 
— eradicated the death sting of the serpent — the lust of the 
flesh — from the consciousness of the soul, and restored 
the soul to life and material body to health, the Sabbath 
was a day of healing with Him— a day o£ restoring life 
to the soul and health to the sin cursed material body. 
The Sabbath is symbolic of that eternal day of life, when 
He shall reign as "King of Kings and Lord of Lords" 
and restore God's children to the image of the Father and 
abolish all sin and sickness from the soul. He healed 
on the Sabbath, both Soul and body. Luke 6: 6; John 
7:22-23; Matt. 12: 8-13; Luke 13: 12-16; Mark 3: 1-5; 
Luke 6:9-10; Luke 6:7. When the Scribes and the 
Pharisees brought the woman to Jesus, who had been 
caught in the very act of adultery, He said to them, 



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"He that is without sin, among you, let him first cast a 
stone at her" (John 8:7). Under the Mosaic law a woman 
caught in the act of committing adultery had to be stoned 
to death. Death was the penalty for sin ; the law provided 
that those who were witnesses to the act of adultery should 
do the stoning. Stoning was the method and death was 
the penalty, and those who saw her commit the act of 
adultery had to administer the penalty; so when the 
Pharisees and the Scribes caught the woman in the act, 
they carried her to Jesus and said, "Master, this woman 
was taken in adultery, in the very act" (John 8: 4). He 
turned to them and said, "He that is without sin among 
you, let him first cast a stone at her." And they turned 
and went away one by one. They were all guilty. (John 
8:9). He then turned to the woman and said, "Woman 
where are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemned 
thee?" And she said, "No man, Lord." And Jesus said 
unto her, "Neither do I condemn thee. Go and sin no 
more." (John 8: 11). The Master here defines sin as the 
lust of the flesh. This is the sin — the serpent that was in 
the Garden of Eden. It is the only sin that ever was or 
ever will be. All other evils eminate from this sin. This 
is the only and original sin. It is the first death. All 
diseases of the corporal man and the spiritual death of 
the soul, originate in this the original sin. The gospel 
is the Impartation of the Divine Mind to the soul as life. 
This Impartation of Life to the soul by the Divine Mind 
restores the soul to life and heals the sick mortal man. 
Without sin — the lust of the flesh — in the consciousness 
of the soul, there would be no sickness and no death. 
The gospel — the Divine Mind imparted to the soul as 
life, forgives sin and heals the sick. When the Divine 
Mind is imparted to the soul as life, the soul is regenerated 
and restored to the image of God, as man originally was 
before the fall. 

When Jesus healed the sick He told them to "go 
and sin no more." When He healed the sick He said unto 
them, "Thy faith hath made thee whole, thy sins are for- 
given thee." The Master always coupled sin and disease 
together as one. The forgiving of sins and a restoration of 
health are one; they go hand in hand; they are one in 
essence. "And behold they brought to Him a man sick 
with the palsy, laying on a bed; and Jesus seeing their 



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faith said unto the sick of the palsy, Son be of good cheer; 
thy sins be forgiven thee." "And behold, certain of the 
Scribes said within themselves, "This man blasphemeth." 
And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, "Wherefore think 
ye evil in your hearts? For whether it is easier to say, Thy 
sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise and walk? But 
that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on 
earth (in the flesh) to forgive sins, (then sayeth he to the 
sick man of the palsy) Arise, take up thy bed, and go into 
thine house. And he arose, and departed to his house. 
But when the multitude saw it, they marveled, and glori- 
fied God, which had given such power unto men." (Matt. 
9: 2-8). Jesus, the Christ had power to forgive the man's 
sins because Jesus the Christ was the Son of God — the 
Son of Spirit. Conceived without the lust of the flesh 
and was without sin — lust desires. Sin here was the same 
sin that was in the Garden of Eden — the lust of the flesh, 
and this sin had bound the man down with the palsy. 
To heal him was to forgive his sins, to eradicate from his 
mind the desire for the gratification of the lust of the flesh, 
for sickness and sin are one. To forgive his sins, to 
eradicate all carnal desires from his mind and soul, was 
to restore his soul to the consciousness of God as life — 
to reveal the Divine Mind of God as life unto the soul, 
and thereby remove the death sting of the serpent — 
the lust of the flesh — from the soul. Sickness and sin are 
within the carnal mind, and are the results of an impure 
mind, carnal desires and the gratification of lust. Man 
is not revealed as the perfect image of God — as the Son of 
God — until the carnal mind is overcome. There is 
no healing of the sick until sin is overcome. The scribes 
thought evil of this healing — they were living in the con- 
sciousness of the lust of the flesh, and could not understand 
how the Christ healed the sick. The evil that they were 
thinking, was the same evil that the Serpent put Adam 
and Eve to thinking in the Garden of Eden — the lust of 
the flesh. Where evil (lust) is, sin is (death); where sin 
is, sickness and death are. To heal the material man the 
soul must overcome sin — the veil must be rent, and man 
must be revealed as the perfect image of God. 

"And behold men brought in a bed, a man which was 
taken with a palsy; and they sought means to bring him 
in, and to lay him before him. And when they could not 



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find by what way they might bring him in, because of the 
multitude, they went upon the house top, and let him down 
through the tiling with his couch into the midst before 
Jesus. And when He saw their faith He said unto him, 
Man, thy sins are forgiven thee. And the Scribes and the 
Pharisees began to reason saying, Who is this which speak- 
eth blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone? 
But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, He answering 
said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts, whether 
it is easier to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee, or to say, 
Arise up and walk? But that ye may know that the Son 
of man hath power upon earth (in the flesh) to forgive 
sins. He said unto the sick of the palsy, I say unto thee, 
rise, and take up thy couch, and go to thine house. And 
immediately he rose up before them, and took that 
whereon he lay and departed to his own house, glorifying 
God." (Luke 5: 18-25). The Master forgave sins — 
removed the carnal in thought and desire from the mind 
and soul — when He healed the sick — that is, He revealed 
the divine mind of His Father as life to their soul thereby 
removing the death sting of the serpent — the lust of the 
flesh from the soul. There can be no healing of the sick 
until sin is forgiven, the lust desires of the flesh eradicated 
from the mind. He was aboslutely pure, spiritually; 
lived in thought, mind and desire above the consciousness 
of the lust and sex senses of the flesh, and therefore, was 
the Christ — the life of His Father — and he Had power to 
forgive sins — to restore the soul to life and to heal the sick. 
The veil — the lust and sex senses must be "rent from top 
to bottom" for the soul to realize God as life. The Christ 
rent this veil when He healed the sick. When we become 
the sons of God — overcome the lust of the flesh completely, 
not only in act, but in thought and desire, we become 
apostles of the Christ and ministers of the word, and can 
heal the sick. 

The Christian has overcome the lust of the flesh and 
has the life of the Father, and can heal the sick; and he 
that cannot heal the sick is not a Christian. He that has 
not overcome the lust of the flesh cannot heal the sick — 
is not a Christian. He that has overcome the death sting 
of the serpent is a Christian, and can heal the sick and lead 
the soul into the conscious realization of the Divine Mind 
of the Father as life. There was no death until there was 



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sin — lust of the flesh — there was no veil that separated 
man from God in mind and thought until there was sin — 
lust. Remove the veil — the lust of the flesh — in mind 
and thought, and man stands revealed, the perfect image 
of God, and there is no sin, sickness nor death in the per- 
fect image of God. 

"And He was teaching in one of the synagogues on 
the Sabbath, and behold, there was a woman which had 
a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed to- 
gether and could in nowise lift up herself. And when 
Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and said unto her, 
Woman thou art loosed from thine infirmity. And He 
laid His hands on her; and immediately she was made 
straight, and glorified God. And the ruler of the syna- 
gogue answered with indignation, because Jesus had healed 
on the Sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are 
six days in which men ought to work; in them, therefore, 
come and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day. The 
Lord then answered him and said, Thou hypocrite, 
doth not each one of you, on the Sabbath loose his ox 
or his ass from the stall and lead him away to watering? 
And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, 
whom Satan hath bound down, lo, these eighteen years, 
be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?" (Luke 
13: 10-16). Jesus healed on the Sabbath day, because He 
is Lord of the Sabbath day — that eternal day of rest to the 
soul — the eternal day wherein the soul shall rest within 
the bosom of the Father, free from the death sting of the 
serpent and the lust of the flesh and live unto God, 
and reflect Him as life. The soul must be made free from 
sin — lust — to enter into that eternal day of life. Jesus 
therefore on the Sabbath freed the souls of men from 
the lust of the flesh and healed them. Jesus here defines 
sin and disease as one. "This woman who hath been 
bound down by Satan (lust) these eighteen years." 
Satan is the same serpent that was in the Garden of Eden 
— the lust of the flesh, and has bound all humanity down 
with disease and sickness since the first man and woman 
indulged the lust of the flesh. Hospitals, insane institu- 
tions, and the drugs of materia medica are the monu- 
ments that have been erected to sensuality. "For this 
cause thou shalt die." "Touch it not (lust) lest ye die." 
Jesus said, "Ought not this woman, being a daughter of 



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Abraham, whom Satan hath bowed down these eighteen 
years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?" 
She was the daughter of Abraham. She had sinned, and 
Satan (lust) had bound her in the shackles of the flesh 
with disease and suffering; but she had come to repent 
of her sins and thus to become a daughter of Abraham. 
All who repent for the sins of the flesh become children 
of Abraham — children of the Divine Mind. They have the 
Father as spirit revealed to the soul as life and the lust 
of the flesh eradicated from the consciousness of the soul. 
Every soul that has had the divine mind of the Father 
revealed to it is quickened into life and becomes of the 
seed of Abraham. None can be healed except the seed 
of Abraham; and none can heal except the seed of Abra- 
ham. The death sting of the serpent must be removed 
before the soul can be restored to life — to the perfect 
image of God and stand revealed as the perfect child of 
God, and the material body healed. The greatest sinners 
are not those who indulge the lust of the flesh in act, but 
the Senile, who indulge in the lust of the flesh, not 
in act, but in thought and desire only. They are per- 
verts. The desire to sin must be removed from the soul 
for man to become a child of God. 

"And Zaccheus stood and said unto the Lord, 
Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor and 
if I take anything from any man by false accusation I 
restore him four fold. And Jesus said unto him, This day is 
salvation come to this house, for as much as he also is a 
son of Abraham" (Luke 19: 8-9). All who become the 
sons of Abraham, have selfishness and greed removed 
from the soul as did Zaccheus. It is the death sting of 
the serpent within the soul — the sex and lust senses — that 
produces avarice and greed, and sickness and disease. It 
is the soul that is spiritually dead that thinks the thoughts 
of avarice and greed and lives in a sick body. The chil- 
dren of Abraham — the souls that have had the Divine 
Mind revealed as life, live above the death sting of the 
serpent — avarice and greed. There is no selfishness, 
avarice and greed, disease and death in the Divine Mind 
of God, the Father, who is life and love. 

"And it came to pass, when He was in a certain city, 
behold a man full of leprosy, who, seeing Jesus, fell on his 
face, and besought Him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, 



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Thou can make me clean. And He put forth His hand, 
and touched him, saying, I will, be thou clean. And 
immediately the leprosy departed from him" (Luke 
5- 12-13). "And it came to pass, as He went to Jerusalem, 
that He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. 
And as He entered into a certain village, there met Him 
ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off. And they 
lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy 
on us. And when He saw them, He said unto them, Go 
shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, 
that as they went they were cleansed" (Luke 17: 11-14). 
Priesthood is spirituality — purity of soul. True priest- 
hood is the soul overcoming the lust of the flesh and com- 
ing into the conscious realization of the Divine Mind as 
life. We must all become priests to see and to realize 
God as spirit and as life. Christ was the Chief Priest, 
because He absolutely overcame the lust of the flesh — 
the death sting of the serpent — and was perfect life. He 
told the lepers to go shew themselves to the priests— 
that is to repent of their sins — the lust of the flesh — and 
seek the Divine Mind of the Father as life, and as they 
went they were healed. As we forsake the senses, the 
soul comes into the understanding of God as life. As we 
go from the lust of the flesh into the consciousness of the 
Father as spirit and as life, we are healed spiritually 
and materially. We become priests and Sons of God. 

Syphillis is a mild form of leprosy. Leprosy is the 
most destructive sting that the serpent administers to the 
human body. It is the worst of all the afflictions of sin. 
Syphillis and leprosy are the results of the serpent — the 
lust of the flesh. Gonorrhoea is another child of sin — 
the serpent. The human race is cursed and afflicted with 
the result of these diseases. The other diseases mentally 
and physically which curse the human race are bi-products 
of gonorrhoea, syphillis and leprosy. Insanity, nerve 
diseases, cancer and all forms of human and mental 
suffering are the results of sin — lust. They may have 
been inherited from generations passed, but they are the 
result of sin. The serpent everywhere administers his 
sting of death to the children of Adam. The young, by 
self-abuse, fill the insane asylums before maturity. 
The idiot, the premature old-age face, the idiotic smile, 
and the glare of the eye, are the results of sin — self- 



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abuse. The mature, by indulging the lust of the flesh 
pre-maturely age, and become weak and infirm, mentally 
and physically. The hospitals and insane institutions of 
the world are filled with females afflicted with diseases 
peculiar to their sex as a result of sin. The males are cut 
off prematurely in life as a result of sin. Insanity is every 
where as a result of sin, as a result of self -abuse and the 
over indulging the lust of the flesh. The results of the lust 
of the flesh — the death sting of the serpent — fill the insane 
institutions of the world. These conditions have existed 
in all ages since the fall of Adam and Eve. They existed 
in the days of Jesus, the Christ, as now. He overcame the 
lust of the flesh, at thirty years of age, and became the 
Christ, was pure in heart, mind and thought — lived in the 
conscious realization of the Divine Mind of His Father as 
life; and for three years went about teaching the King- 
dom of Life — the Gospel — forgiving sins and healing the 
sick and restoring men to their right minds. Wherever 
He went He cast out the death sting of the serpent — the 
result of the lust of the flesh — from the consciousness of 
the soul, thereby restoring the soul to a conscious realiza- 
tion of the Divine Mind of the Father and healing the 
soul spiritually, and the material body physically. 

"And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, 
which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither 
could be healed of any, came behind Him, and touched the 
border of His garment, and immediately her issue of blood 
stanched. And when the woman saw that she was not 
hid, she came trembling, and falling down before Him, 
and she declared unto Him before all the people for what 
cause she had touched Him, and how she was healed im- 
mediately. And He said unto her, "Daughter, be of 
good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole; go in 
peace" (Luke 8: 43-44; Matt. 9: 20-22). This woman was 
diseased for the same cause that produces all the infirmi- 
ties of the material man — sin— the serpent had produced 
his effects upon her. Her disease was within the sex and 
lust senses, as are all diseases. There was not any disease 
and sickness until the first man and woman were turned 
out of the Garden of Eden ; out and from the Presence of 
God as Life; and the flaming sword and the cherubim — 
the carnal and lust thoughts of the flesh — were placed be- 
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It was the carnal and lust thoughts of the flesh that con- 
stituted the cherubim and the flaming sword of the Gar- 
den of Eden. It is these carnal and lust thoughts of the 
flesh that keeps man as a spiritual being from partaking 
of the tree of life — from realizing God as the all spirit, 
mind and life. There was not any death until this flam- 
ing sword and cherubim — the carnal and lust thoughts of 
the flesh — were manifested in the consciousness of the 
soul. The flaming sword and cherubim — the carnal and 
lust thoughts of the flesh — are the cause of all sin, sickness, 
disease and death. Remove the flaming sword and cheru- 
bim — the carnal and lust thoughts of the flesh — from the 
consciousness of the soul, and you eradicate disease, 
sickness and death and restore the soul to life and the 
material body to health. This woman was sick with a 
disease peculiar to her sex, as a result of sin. The Christ 
removed the flaming sword and the cherubim — carnal and 
lust thoughts and desires — from the soul of the woman and 
thus restored her soul to the Garden of Eden, where she 
could partake of the Tree of Life — realize and under- 
stand God as Spirit and Life — and by thus restoring her 
soul as spiritual being to life, He healed the material 
body. And He said unto her, "Daughter, be of good 
comfort, thy faith hath made thee whole." Her faith 
consisted in her repudiating and forsaking the lust of the 
flesh and sensuality, not only in act, but in desire and 
thought; and by repudiating all that pertained to the 
flesh, she came into a conscious understanding of God as 
spirit and life. And by thus coming into a conscious 
understanding and realization of God as Spirit and life, 
she came into the conscious realization of life. She es- 
tablished the correct relation between herself as the spir- 
itual creature, and God as the Spiritual Creator; and as 
all life is within God, when she came into the correct rela- 
tion with God, she reflected Him as life, and thus abolished 
death from the soul and disease from the material body. 
Faith in God is the establishing of the correct realtion be- 
tween the creature as a spiritual creation and God as the 
Spiritual Creator, and this correct relation between God 
the Father and the soul, as a child of God, gives life to the 
soul. This correct relation between the soul and God can 
only be established when the lust of the flesh is eradicated 
from the consciousness of the soul— when the veil is 



334 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

"rent in twain from top to bottom." Moses established 
this correct relation with God when he went upon the 
Mount of Sinai and "lifted the veil" from over his face — 
the veil is the lust senses of the flesh. Moses did not see 
God through the nerves of the physical eye nor hear God 
through the auditory nerves of the physical ear; but he 
saw God through the spiritual eyes of the soul and heard 
Him through the spiritual ear of the soul; and talked to 
God in the language of the spiritual tongue and under- 
stood God spiritually. For Moses to see God spiritually 
face to face, the veil of the lust of flesh had to be removed 
from the soul. It was not a material being, that appeared 
in the person of Gabriel and spoke to Mary, the mother 
of Jesus. An angel is a messenger, and must think the 
thoughts of God's mind to convey God's message. Every 
thought of the soul that is divine, is from God and is an 
angel of God. It is God's message — God as the Divine 
Mind revealed in thought. It was the Divine Mind of 
God, the Father, flowing into the consciousness of Mary's 
soul, eradicating every thought of the flesh from her soul, 
until her thoughts were absolutely pure before God — 
she thought only the thoughts of the Divine Mind — 
that enabled her to conceive Jesus spiritually. It was the 
Divine Mind, within her soul as life, that constituted 
the angel Gabriel. She could not have understood and 
conversed with Gabriel — a spiritual being except in the 
language of the spirit — she had to be pure to realize 
His presence. And through this Divine Mind — the Holy 
Life — she conceived a Perfect Spiritual being — through the 
perfect understanding of God as life, she conceived Jesus, 
the Christ — the Perfect Being. Faith is the eradication 
of sin from the soul and a perfect conscious realization of 
God as life. And this faith, the correct understanding 
of God, and the conscious realization of God as life, re- 
stores life to the soul, and heals the sick material body. 
There can be no restoration of the soul to life and no 
healing of the material body unless there is a forgiveness 
of sins. Jesus said to all of them, who came sick and 
maimed, "If thou will believe thou shall be healed." 
That is, if you will repudiate and forsake the lust and car- 
nality of the flesh, not only in act, but in thought and de- 
sire, and establish the correct relation with God, and come 
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as life, Thou shall have thy soul restored to life, thy sins 
forgiven thee, and thy material body healed. Doctors 
of materia medica in Jesus' day attempted to heal by 
their materia medica as now. They had the sensual 
view of things as now; they believed that there was life 
within the senses and matter. ''She had spent all of her 
living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any." 
(Luke 3: 43). Medicine never healed the sick and never 
will. Medicine cannot eradicate the serpent — lust — sin — 
from the soul. Drugs cannot take the death sting of the 
serpent from the soul and restore the soul to life. Drugs 
cannot eradicate the carnal thoughts and desires from the 
mind and consciousness of the soul. There was no sick- 
ness and no death until sin — the lust of the flesh — the 
death sting of the serpent — had been indulged in thought 
as well as act. The carnal and lust thoughts of the flesh 
must be eradicated from the mind and the consciousness 
of the soul to restore the soul to life and to heal the sick 
material body. Jesus said to the sick, "Bowed down by 
Satan" (by lust) who flocked to Him from all parts of 
Galilee and Judea, "Thy faith hath made thee whole, 
thy sins are forgiven thee, go sin no more." As we estab- 
lish faith in God — come into the conscious realization of 
God as Spirit and Life, and repudiate and forsake the 
lust of the flesh — the soul is restored to life, sins are for- 
given and the material body is healed. But the soul to 
heal and to be healed must be pure. No woman would 
have ever thought of marrying Jesus, the Christ. In the 
presence of Jesus, the Christ, fallen women fell down and 
cried out for their sins to be forgiven, and their souls to 
be restored to life, and their diseased bodies to be healed. 
Whenever a woman came into His presence she realized 
that she was in the presence of a Holy and Perfect Being. 
She never thought of Him as man, as a member of the 
opposite sex, but as the Son of God. Jesus never aroused 
the lust of any woman. But His very presence caused 
them to cry out for their sins to be forgiven. They felt 
the guilt of the flesh in His presence. Men and women 
deranged in mind and diseased in body from self-abuse, 
those of both sex bowed down by Satan (lust) realized 
their guilt in His presence and cried out "We know who 
Thou art — the Son of God — torment us not." 



336 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

No woman ever had any carnal desire for Jesus, 
the Christ. The Holy Life within the man Jesus overcame 
the lust of the flesh and made Him the Son of God and 
every woman that came into His presence felt the guilt 
of sin, and instead of being attracted to Him as a member 
of the opposite sex, they fell down at His feet and confessed 
their sins. No woman ever thought of marrying one of the 
Apostles. Peter had a wife, but after the day of Pente- 
cost he left home and family and went forth to preach the 
gospel — the kingdom of life. Imagine a woman being 
sexually attracted to Paul or John? The Apostles were 
so pure that they appealed to the opposite sex as brothers 
rather than husbands. They were the Apostles of the 
Christ — the Prince of Life — because they had overcome 
the lust of the flesh in mind, thought and desire — lived 
only within the realm of the Divine Mind, and the Mind 
of the Christ. They appealed to no woman as a husband, 
and no woman appealed to them as a wife — they had 
overcome the sensual — sin — and like their Master, they 
could heal the sick and raise the dead. All true Apostles 
and ministers of the Christ have overcome the sensual — 
sin — and live in the Mind of the Christ and appeal to the 
opposite sex only as brothers and not as husbands. When 
the sensual, sin, has been overcome there is no sex attrac- 
tion. The true Apostle or minister of the Christ, who like 
his Master — has overcome the sensual — sin — has no 
attraction for the opposite sex — and can heal the sick 
soul and sick body. There can be no sex attraction, 
without the lust of the flesh — sin — in the mind and 
thought. There can be no true Apostleship of the Christ 
until the sensual — sin — has been removed. Any other 
Apostleship is of the flesh and a false prophet — an apostle 
of death. When the church returns to true Christianity 
and to the mind of the Christ and overcomes the sensual 
— sin — it will heal the sin cursed soul and the material 
sick body, as of old. 

The Christian Church is a sexless church — not sex- 
less physically, but spiritually. Emasculation does not 
make a Christian. Some of the deepest dyed in sin are 
sexless physically. Sin is in the mind, in thought and in 
desire. The greatest perverts and sinners are physically 
sexless and without the power to gratify the lust of the 
flesh- —they do not possess the faculty of gratification of 



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lust, but the desire for the faculty to gratify the lust makes 
them perverts, and finally insane. The Christ mind de- 
stroys this insanity, this desire for the lust faculty in the 
mind. This is what the Christ did when He cast out 
demons — evil thoughts — lust desires — out of the mind and 
restored men to their right minds. 

Some of the purest Christians in thought, are the 
best sex physically. By the power of the Christ Mind, 
they have overcome the lust of the flesh, not only in 
act but in thought and desire. 

The Christian Church was spiritually sexless, during 
the first three centuries of the Christian Era, and during 
those three centuries it was a Christian Church in reality, 
and healed the sick. But when it became sensual and pag- 
anistic it lost its power to heal the sick. Let us light the 
torch of Christian truth and march from the City of Baby- 
lon — the City of sensuality — to the City of the New Jerusa- 
lem — the City of Soul Purity — wherein the souls of men 
may again be conscious of the Christ as the Prince of Life, 
and be Christians, and restore those possessed with de- 
mons — sexual perverts — evil minds — to their right minds, 
and the sick bodies of men, "Bowed down by Satan" 
(lust) to health. The Christ — the Prince of Life — and His 
healing power, which is life, lived in mind, thought and 
desire will cast out all demons — lust thoughts and desires 
— and heal the sick bodies of men ' 'Bowed down by Sa- 
tan" — lust and sensulaity. 

The Christ said, the Kingdom of Heaven — the King- 
dom of Life — is within you. As we overcome sin — the lust 
of the flesh — in thought and desire, we come into the King- 
dom of Heaven — the Kingdom of Life — and this life of 
the Father which regenerates the soul, through the Christ, 
takes every evil thought and desire of the flesh out of the 
soul, and restores the soul to life and purity, and heals the 
sick body. Jesus said "Take up thy cross and follow Me." 
The cross was the emblem of death — sin — and so is the 
serpent. The cross of Jesus was overcoming lust, in 
thought and desire, and in so doing He overcame death. 
If we would follow Him, we must overcome the lust of the 
flesh, in thought and desire, and by so doing, we shall 
overcome the death sting of the serpent and be resurrected 
and live unto God, and not only cast demons — evil 
thoughts — out of ourselves and heal our own sick bodies, 
but others. Christ heals, the serpent kills. 



CHAPTER XXXIII. 

THE GOSPEL AND THE CHRISTIAN. 

''And Jesus went about all Galilee teaching in their 
synagogues and preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom and 
healing all manner of sickness and all manner of diseases 
among the people" (Matt. 4: 23). "Now after that 
John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee preaching 
the Gospel of the Kingdom of God (the kingdom of the 
Spirit and Life) and saying, The time is fulfilled and the 
Kingdom of God (the Kingdom of Spirit and Life) is at 
hand, repent ye and believe the Gospel (repudiate the 
flesh and consider God as the only true life)" (Mark 1: 14- 
15). "And He said unto them, Go ye, unto all the world, 
and preach the gospel (life) to every creature. He that 
believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that be- 
lieveth not shall be damned, and these signs shall follow 
them that believeth (that consider God as life and come 
into the conscious realization of Him as life) in My name, 
shall they cast out devils (carnal thoughts and desires 
of the flesh) they shall speak with new tongues; they shall 
take up serpents (carnal desires) and if they drink any 
deadly thing it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands 
on the sick and they shall recover" (Mark 16: 15-18). 
"And this gospel of the kingdom (of life) shall be preached 
in all the world, for a witness unto all the nations and then 
shall the end come." (Matt. 24: 14). "And Jesus went 
about all their cities and villages teaching in their syna- 
gogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom (life) and 
healing every sickness and every disease among the people" 
(Matt. 9: 35). The question is, what is the Gospel? 
Jesus, the Christ, defined it both in deed and precept. 
He defined the Gospel in deed and in act by healing the 
sick and restoring men unto their right minds; and He 
define dthe Gospel in precept and principle when He for- 
gave the sins of men and cast out the lust of the flesh from 

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the consciousness of their souls and restored their souls to 
life. There was no death until man sinned; until man 
indulged the lust of the flesh and then man died. Man is 
not a material, a corporal being; but man is a spiritual 
being, made in the image of God, who is spirit; and man 
reflected the life of God as long as man retained the image 
of God ; but when man the spiritual being, who was made 
in God's image, partook of the lust of the flesh in thought, 
mind, desire and consciousness, man, the spiritual being 
made in God's image, lost the image of God and the soul 
died spiritually and the corporal man died physically. 
The spiritual death of the soul and corporal sickness and 
death are the results of sin. There are sin, sickness, 
disease and death, but they are within the senses of the 
corporal man; and as the man, made in God's image, 
partakes of the lust of the senses of the corporal man, in 
thought and desire, he becomes spiritually dead and the 
corporal man suffers sickness, disease and death. It was 
the thoughts of the senses — the desires of the lust of the, 
flesh — the carnal mind — which was placed at the Garden 
that constituted the cherubim and the flaming sword, 
which turned man out from the image of God and pro- 
duced all the sickness, disease and death to which man 
is heir. The lust of the flesh — the carnal mind — is death. 
The Divine Mind is life. The carnal mind is of the senses 
— the lust of the flesh. It is composed of male and female 
in thought. It is of mortal creation in mind, thought and 
desire. The Divine Mind is of God. It is neither male 
nor female — it is life. God is the only life that there is in 
the Universe. All spiritual creation reflects God as the 
only life. The Gospel is the God Mind — the good news 
of the good tidings — the good thoughts — the spiritual 
thoughts of the Divine Mind as they flow into the soul, 
imparting life to the soul, and eradicating the death sting 
of the serpent and the consciousness .of the lust of the flesh 
from the soul. The Gospel is God — the Divine Mind, 
imparting the Divine Mind — life — to the soul. When God 
created man in His image He imparted life to him and 
he became a living being. That is, the Divine Mind, 
imparted life to the soul, made in God's image; and the 
soul became a living being, reflecting the image of God, 
who is life. When the soul partook of the lust of the flesh 
in thought, desire and act, the man made in God's image 



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lost the image of God as life and had carnal desires and 
thoughts. The Gospel is the Divine Mind restoring the 
soul to life by regenerating it and casting out the conscious- 
ness of the lust of the flesh from the soul and imparting 
life to the soul — restoring the soul to the state of life which 
man possessed originally, when made in God's image. 
The Gospel is God, the Divine Mind, the all life — the 
Universal Intelligence, revealing Himself as life to the 
soul and eradicating the desire and the lust of the flesh 
from the consciousness of the soul. The Gospel is the 
Divine Mind in thought and life within the soul, and where 
Divinity and Life are, the lust of the flesh and death 
cannot be. Jesus preached this Gospel — this kingdom of 
life — this Divine Mind — this all life, because He was 
conceived by the power of life and the Divine Mind; 
and because He had been anointed, and had received 
the Life of His Father — all Grace as the Gift of Life. 
Wherever He preached this Gospel — this kingdom of 
life — the Divine Mind of God — the Universal Intelli- 
gence of the Universe, Life was imparted to the souls of 
men and the death sting of the serpent — the lust of the 
flesh — and the carnal thoughts and desires of the flesh 
were eradicated from the souls of men and the souls of 
men restored to life and the corporal bodies of men to 
health. The Gospel — the kingdom of life — the Divine 
Mind casts out the evil thoughts of the flesh from the mind, 
consciousness and the soul of man and restores the man 
to his right mind — to the mind of God, who is spirit and 
life. Wherever Jesus went preaching, He imparted life 
to the souls of men and restored them to their right minds 
and healed their material bodies. The Gospel is Life to 
the Soul; it is the all power; it is the All Life; it is the 
Divine Mind eradicating the carnal mind from the soul 
and thoughts of man. The Gospel — the kingdom of life 
— the Divine Mind, casts out every evil thought of lust, 
avarice, greed, malice, hatred, murder and death and 
restores the soul to life; to the thoughts of love, harmony, 
peace, charity, chastity, and life. The soul that has 
received the Gospel has received the gift of life, 
and thinks thoughts of God, which are love, purity, and 
life. There can be no sin, sickness, disease and death, 
except within the mind of the serpent — lust, avarice, 
greed, hatred, murder, malice, and death are the results 



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of sin — the lust of the flesh. All diseases of the corporal 
man and of the soul are results of sin — the death sting of 
the serpent. The Gospel — the kingdom of life — the Di- 
vine Mind, eradicates this death sting of the serpent, from 
the soul, heals the corporal body, the diseased mind and 
the sick soul. There can be no healing of the soul, without 
the Gospel of the kingdom of life. The soul which is dead 
to the lust of the flesh must receive the impartation of the 
Divine Mind of God, the all life, before it can realize 
God as Spirit and Life; until this veil is "rent from top 
to bottom," there is no life for the soul. The Gospel 
— the Divine Mind of God — the All Life — imparted to the 
soul as life, rents this veil — the lust senses — from "top to 
bottom" and restores the soul to life, to purity of thought 
and love. The same Divine Mind that imparts life to the 
soul and casts out demons — carnal thoughts from the 
soul — and restores the soul to life, restores man to his 
correct mind and heals the material body. The soul that 
is conscious of God as life, that soul has had the Divine 
Mind — Life — imparted to it; it is neither sick nor dies; 
such a soul is in the image of God, the Father, and thinks 
thoughts of the Divine Mind and has complete power over 
all disease, sickness and death. 

The Gospel — the Kingdom of Life — the Divine Mind 
revealed to the soul as life heals the sick soul, restores 
the deranged mind and cures the diseased corporal man, 
that soul has had a revelation ; it has had the veil lifted — 
the lust desires removed from the soul. When the 
human family shall have subdued the flesh and overcome 
the sensual, the corporal man will no longer be diseased; 
insanity will cease and souls will live unto God. Elimi- 
nate the mind of the serpent from the consciousness of 
the mind and the soul of man and the corporal man will 
cease to be diseased and mentally deranged and the soul 
will live unto God. The mind of the serpent — sensuality 
— is the father of all diseases of the corporal man, mental 
derangements and the death of the soul of man; and 
"these signs shall follow them that believe, in My name 
they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new 
tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink 
of any deathly thing is shall not hurt them; they shall 
lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover" (Mark 
16:17-18). 



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The Divine Mind imparted to the soul casts out devils 
— the thoughts of sensuality and lust — imparts life to the 
soul; the soul speaks with a new tongue — the language 
of the spirit and life. The Divine Mind imparted to the 
soul eradicates the serpent — the lust of the senses — from 
the soul; and where the lust of the flesh is eradicated 
from the soul there is no disease in the corporal man nor 
death in the soul. The lust — the senses of the flesh — the 
mind of the serpent, cannot impart death to the soul, 
when the Divine Mind is imparting life to the soul. 
Death cannot be where life is. The soul that is thinking 
the thoughts of the Divine Mind is not thinking the 
thoughts of the senses — the lust of the flesh. The soul 
that is thinking thoughts of the Divine Mind has had 
life imparted to the soul. The Holy Life has come upon 
that soul and that soul has complete power over sin, 
sickness and death. The Kingdom of Heaven is the 
Kingdom of Life — the Kingdom of the Divine Mind — 
the Holy Life. The Kingdom of Heaven — the Kingdom 
of God — the Gospel — is the Holy Ghost — the Holy Spirit 
— the Holy Life coming into the soul eradicating the 
thoughts and the consciousness of the lust of the flesh 
from the soul and restoring the soul to life. This is the 
Gospel — the Divine Mind, imparting life to the soul. 
The soul that has had this revelation of the Divine Mind 
— this lifting of the veil of the senses from the soul — 
has come into the Kingdom of the Divine Life, and thinks 
the thoughts of the Divine Mind and not the thoughts of 
the lust of the flesh. Such a soul is in the Kingdom of 
God — in the Kingdom of Life — and can commune with 
the angels and understand their language of spirit, 
as did Mary when Gabriel spoke to her and she con- 
ceived Jesus. The soul that has not had this imparta- 
tion of life — the Divine Mind revealed to it as life, has 
not had the veil of the senses removed from the soul and 
thinks thoughts of the senses — the lust of the flesh and 
is spiritually dead. The Gospel — the Kingdom of Life — 
the Divine Mind, revealed to the soul — the Holy Ghost, 
the Holy Life, the Holy Spirit, generated into the soul 
restores the soul to life and heals the corporal man. The 
real man — the man made in God's image and who is 
spiritual is neither sick nor dies — when he bears his cor- 
rect relation to God — the Divine Mind — and lives with- 



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in the conscious realization of God as the all life; the 
death sting of the serpent does not enter the Kingdom of 
Life. When the veil is rent and the man made in God's 
image is restored to his correct relation with God as life, 
man is neither sick nor dies. 

"Then He called His twelve disciples together and 
gave them power and authority over all devils (evil spirits 
and carnal desires) and to cure diseases, and He sent them 
to preach the Gospel of God (the Kingdom of Life) 
and to heal the sick" (Luke 9: 1-2). "And when He called 
unto Him the twelve disciples, He gave them power 
against unclean spirits (lust thoughts and carnal desires) 
and to cast them out and to heal all manner of sickness 
and all manner of disease" (Matt. 10: 2). "And He goeth 
up into a mountain and calleth unto Him whom He 
would and they come unto Him and He ordained twelve 
that they should be with Him and that He might send 
them forth to preach and to have power to heal sickness 
and to cast out devils (carnal thoughts)" (Mark 3: 2-15). 
And He called unto Him the twelve and began to send 
them forth two by two and He gave them power over 
unclean spirits (lust thoughts)" (Mark 6: 7). The apostles 
went forth as the Master had commanded them and 
preached the Gospel — the Kingdom of Life — and where- 
ever they preached this Kingdom of Life, the Divine 
Mind was revealed unto the souls of men as life, and the 
Holy Ghost — the Holy Spirit — the Holy Life — came 
upon men quickening the souls of men to life and casting 
out the thoughts and desires of the lust of the flesh— 
the thoughts of the mind of the serpent, and the corporal 
man, diseased and bound down by Satan — the lust of the 
flesh — was healed, and the dead were raised. Devils and 
evil spirits are not only departed spirits that lived for the 
flesh here, but the carnal thoughts of the soul still in the 
flesh. Acts 3: 15, 9:32-40; Mark 16: 20. The Christians 
preached this Gospel — this Kingdom of Life — and healed 
the sick soul and the suffering corporal man for three 
hundred years; for three centuries after the Christ left 
this earth, the Christians healed the sick and restored 
sight to the blind, and the diseased mentally to their right 
minds. The church of the third century became sensual 
and worshipped the lust of the flesh as god and then the 
church lost its power to heal the sick. 



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An apostle means a messenger. A messenger is con- 
scious of and knows the mind of the one whose message 
he bears. He must know the mind of his Master to con- 
vey his Master's mind. An apostle of Christ and a minis- 
ter of the Gospel has to be conscious of the Gospel — the 
Kingdom of Life — the Divine Mind — and live in the con- 
scious realization of God, the Divine Mind, and think the 
thoughts of the Christ, in order to preach the Gospel — 
the Kingdom of Life. An apostle or minister cannot im- 
part the Divine Mind as life — teach the Gospel — unless 
he is conscious of the Divine Mind as Life. A true apostle, 
a messenger of the Christ, not only preaches the kingdom 
of life to the soul but heals the sick and restores the men- 
tally deranged to their right minds. For as the Gospel — 
Divine Mind — is imparted to the soul as life, the carnal 
desires leave the soul and the man is restored to his right 
mind. He who is not an apostle of Christ — who does not 
think the thoughts of God— the Divine Mind as life — 
cannot preach the Gospel — the Kingdom of Life — to 
the sick soul and to the corporal man bowed down with 
pain and suffering by the power of Satan — lust. He who 
thinks the thoughts of the lust of the flesh is an apostle 
of the flesh — of death — and not an apostle of the Christ 
and the kingdom of life. He is a false prophet, preaching 
the religion of the senses, the mind of the serpent and 
the kingdom of death. There is a true test that applies 
to every man who claims to be an apostle of the Christ 
and a minister of the Gospel — of the kingdom of life. 
Can he heal the sick bowed down by Satan — lust? If 
he is an apostle of the Christ or a true minister of the Gos- 
pel — the kingdom of life — he can heal the sick, and restore 
the mentally deranged to their right minds. He is an 
apostle of the Christ and a true minister of the Gospel — 
the kingdom of life — if he has the power over sin and dis- 
ease — lust. Every apostle of the Christ; every true 
minister of the Gospel, (the Kingdom of Life,) is 
living within the conscious realization of the Divine Mind 
as life, and has power over sickness and disease — the carnal 
thoughts of the flesh and mind of the serpent. Jesus the 
Christ was the Prince of Life. (Acts 3: 15). God is 
life and the only life — the Divine Mind and this Divine 
Mind is life — the all and holy life. Jesus was conceived 
by the power of this Divine Mind, and was the Son of God 



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— the Son of Life and not the son of the lust of the flesh — 
the son of death. Mary, His mother, was a true Chris- 
tian. She was the "highly favored of God" — of the 
Divine Mind — that is she received the grace of the 
Divine Mind — the Gift of Life as a revelation from the 
Divine Mind who is Universal Life. God is every where 
and the Holy and the Universal Life. Mary overcame the 
lust of the flesh in thought, mind and desire, by holy living 
and thus came into the possession of the holy life, and the 
Divine Mind was revealed to her as life. The veil of the 
lust and sex senses was lifted from her in thought, mind 
and desire, and the Angel Gabriel that appeared unto her, 
was the thoughts of the Universal and Divine Mind, 
flowing into her soul as life. Gabriel's voice was the voice 
of the spiritual tongue of the divine life. Gabriel did not 
speak to Mary, the corporal woman, through the audi- 
tory nerves of the ear, nor did she see the angel through 
the nerves of the material eye; but she saw him through 
the eye and the vision of the soul and spoke to him through 
the spiritual understanding of the soul. A soul cannot 
converse with an angel until it has had the veil of the lust 
and sex senses lifted from the soul. A soul cannot under- 
stand the Divine Mind and the language of spiritual 
beings until the soul has overcome the lust of the flesh. 
If the human family were as pure as Mary, all men could 
commune with angels. If all women were as pure as 
Mary, they would conceive spiritually, and the lust of 
the flesh — the "reign of Satan" — would come to an end. 
These messengers of life, these thoughts of the Divine 
Mind that were revealed to Mary were life, and through 
this life — Divine Mind — she conceived Jesus who be- 
came the Christ. The conception of Jesus was the true 
conception that was commanded originally, when God 
consecrated theman made in His image and told Him "To 
be fruitful, multiply, replenish and subdue the earth" — 
the flesh. Mary subdued the lust thereof and when she 
did, the Divine Mind was revealed to her through the 
power of the Holy Spirit — the Holy Life — and she con- 
ceived and brought forth a spiritual increase — the Jesus 
who became the Christ. If the human family were as 
spiritual as Mary, the kingdom of God — the kingdom of 
life — would come and the kingdom of Satan would be 
banished from the thoughts, minds and souls of men. 



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Jesus, who became the Christ, was the Son of God, the 
Son of Life. The true Christian is a Son of God. The 
true Christian has overcome the lust of the flesh in mind, 
thought and desire, and by having overcome the senses 
of the flesh, he comes into the conscious realization of 
God— the Divine Mind— the Holy Ghost— the Holy 
Spirit — and the Holy Life comes into the soul and the 
soul is regenerated from the thoughts of the flesh, and 
comes into a holy state, where the soul only thinks the 
thoughts of the Divine Mind and is conscious only of 
God as life and spirit, and thus becomes a child of God — 
life — and lives unto God as the only life. "For whosoever 
is born of God (life) overcometh the world" — the flesh — 
the lust of the flesh in thought, mind and desire. "Be- 
hold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon 
us that we should be called the Sons of God — the Sons of 
Life — therefore, the world (flesh) knoweth us not because 
'it knew not Him." (1 John 3: 1). As we pass from the 
children of the flesh — the sensual — to the children of 
Spirit— life — death knoweth us not. The flesh — the 
sensual — knew not the Christ — God as life — the Divine 
Mind as expressed in the Christ. Within this Divine 
Mind is the only life. When the Holy Ghost — the Holy 
Life came upon Jesus, He became the Christ, and ex- 
pressed the Divine Mind of His Father as life. The Christ 
became the life of His Father, when the man Jesus over- 
came the lust of the flesh. He lived in thought, mind and 
desire above the death sting of the serpent and therefore 
within Him was the all life. The Christian has life. The 
Christian lives within the conscious realization of the 
Divine Mind as life, and thus thinks the thoughts of spirit 
and life and not the thoughts of the lust of the flesh. The 
lust of the flesh in thought, mind and desire cannot know 
the soul that has been born into the kingdom of life — 
the lust of the flesh cannot know the Christian. We are 
Christians because we are the Sons of God — the Sons of 
Life and the Christian has full power to cast out sickness 
from the corporal and material man and death from the 
soul. For there is no death except within the lust senses 
of the flesh. All life is within the Divine Mind. The 
soul that has had the Divine Mind revealed to it and has 
been born into the Kingdom of Life — the Kingdom of 
Spirit, is unconscious of the death sting of the serpent. 



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He is the child of God — of life — and there is no death 
in the Kingdom of Life — Spirit. He that hath the Son 
hath life. (1 John 5: 12). All who have overcome the lust 
of the flesh hath the Son — the Christ — who is life to the 
soul. 

"And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, 
having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that 
dwell on earth (in the flesh), and to every nation, and kin- 
dred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, 
Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judg- 
ment is come; and worship Him that made Heaven, and 
earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. And there 
followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, 
that great city, because she made all nations drink of 
the wine of wrath of her fornication'' (Rev. 14: 6-8). 

The "Everlasting Gospel" is the everlasting life. 
It is God — the Divine Mind — imparting to the soul 
the Divine Mind as life, and eradicating from the soul the 
death sting of the serpent — the thoughts and desires of 
the lust of the flesh. The impartation of the Divine 
Mind to the soul restores the soul to life — abolishes the 
cherubim and the flaming sword (the lust) from the gate 
of the Garden of Eden (life) and permits the soul to return 
to the image of the Father. The Divine Mind imparted 
to the soul as life abolishes death — the lust of the flesh 
from the soul, and the soul comes into the kingdom of 
life — the conscious realization of God as life, and partakes 
of the nature of the Divine Mind as Life — eats of the 
fruition of the "Tree of Life." The Soul that has had the 
Divine Mind imparted to it as life has been born into the 
Kingdom of Life — the Holy Ghost — the Holy Spirit — 
the Holy Life — has come into that soul and it bears the 
image of God, as Father, and reflects God as Spirit and 
Life and is a child of God — of Life. This is the everlasting 
gospel — everlasting life. 

"But as many as received Him, to them gave He 
power to become the Sons of God, even to them that 
believed on His name; which were born, not of blood, 
nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of 
God" (John 1: 12-13). We are the children of death until 
the death sting of the serpent — lust — is removed from the 
soul. We are conceived in lust and by the power of death, 
and dead spiritually until the death sting of the serpent — 



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the lust oft he flesh — is removed from the soul by the im- 
partation of life to the soul through the Divine Mind. 
The veil of the lust senses is between the soul and God 
until it is removed by the impartation of life to the soul, 
through the Divine Mind. Jesus said to Nicodemus, 
' 'Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom 
of God" — the Kingdom of Life. Unless the soul has life 
imparted to it by the Divine Mind, thereby removing the 
death sting of the serpent — the lust of the flesh, from the 
soul, man is dead spiritually. Jesus said to Nicodemus, 
"Except a man be born of the Spirit— the Divine Mind — 
he cannot enter the Kingdom of God" — the Kingdom of 
Life. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh" — death, 
and "That which is born of the Spirit is Spirit" — Life. 
The Gospel is the impartation of the Divine Mind, the 
Christ — Life — to the soul. This impartation of the Di- 
vine Mind — the Christ — Life, to the soul — removes the 
veil, rents the veil "from top to bottom," and eradicates 
all the power of the lust of the flesh — death — from the 
soul. Every desire of the lust of the flesh — and the 
power of death — are eradicated from the soul when the 
life of the Divine Mind is imparted to the soul — the Holy 
Ghost — the Holy Life — the Holy Spirit — imparted to the 
soul abolishes the lust of the flesh and death from the 
soul. Jesus said unto Nicodemus, "Art thou a master 
in Israel, and knowest not these things?" Israel is the 
soul that has had the life of the Divine Mind imparted to 
it, and the death sting of the serpent removed from the 
soul. Israel is the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 
Every soul that has had the Divine Mind imparted to it 
as life and overcomes the lust of the flesh in thought, 
mind and desire is of the house of Israel. Jesus said to 
Nicodemus, Art thou a teacher in this kingdom of life, 
and knowest not that a man must have the Divine Mind 
imparted to the soul to see God — to enter the kingdom of 
life — that every desire of the lust of the flesh — which is 
death, must be removed from the soul, before the soul 
can be conscious of God as spirit and life, and reflect God 
as life (John 3: 1-10). 

"And the third angel followed them, saying with a 
loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image 
and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the 
same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is 



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poured out without mixture into the cup of his indigna- 
tion; and he shall be tormented with Are and brimstone 
in the presence of the Holy angels, and in the presence 
of the Lamb" (Rev. 14: 9-11). The "beast" here is the 
same "beast" that was in the Garden of Eden — the ser- 
pent—lust of the flesh — and all who worship the "beast," 
indulge the lust of the flesh in act, thought and desire 
are spiritually dead, and bear the image of death. The 
serpent was the most subtle of all the beasts. Lust is 
death. It is death to the soul. The veil — the lust 
thoughts and desires of the flesh — separate man from God, 
the all life. All who worship the "Beast" — lust — are in 
outer darkness and spiritually dead. 

"And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon 
is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all 
nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication." 
(Rev. 14: 8). The city of Babylon— the city of the lust 
senses — has fallen in every soul that has had the Divine 
Mind imparted to it as life. Every soul that has had the 
Divine Mind imparted to it as life, has been born again 
and has overcome the lust of the flesh in thought, desire 
and act. Every soul that has had the Divine Mind im- 
parted to it as life and has overcome death — the lust of 
the flesh — is a saint. Such a soul has been sanctified — 
has had the death sting of the serpent — the lust of the 
flesh — removed from the soul, and has come into the king- 
dom of life. Such a soul is sanctified. There can be no 
new birth until the soul has overcome the lust of the flesh, 
not only in act, but in thought and desire. The soul can- 
not come into the kingdom of life, into a conscious realiza- 
tion of God as spirit and life, until it has overcome the 
kingdom of death — the lust of the flesh. 

And Jesus answering said unto them, "The children of 
this world marry, and are given in marriage. But they 
which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, 
and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor 
are given in marriage. Neither can they die any 
more, for they are equal unto the angels, and are the 
children of God (of life) being the children of the 
resurrection" (Luke 20:34-35-36.) "It is better to 
marry than to burn." That is if you are going to indulge 
the lust of the flesh, you should marry. But it is of the 
flesh, just the same. At the marriage in Cana, Jesus 



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turned water into wine. John 2: 1-11. Wine is the em- 
blem of blood. Jesus said "flesh and blood" — the lust 
of the flesh cannot enter the Kingdom of God. By this 
miracle Jesus meant that marriage is of the lust of the 
flesh, and not spiritual. The church has a right to say 
that a man shall not have more than one wife, as a matter 
of morals, but this does not change the truth, that mar- 
riage is of the lust of the flesh, and that the soul must 
be resurrected from the lust and death of the flesh, that 
causes it to marry in flesh in order for the soul to see God 
and to become a child of God. Every soul that has 
had the Divine Mind imparted to it as life, has been resur- 
rected — restored to life, and is a child of God — of life. 
Every soul that has been thus resurrected has had the 
death sting of the serpent removed from the soul and has 
overcome the lust of the flesh. Only the carnal within 
man marries. Only the children of "this world" — of the 
flesh — death — marry. The children of "this world" — the 
flesh — death — beget and conceive and propagate through 
sin — the lust of the flesh — death. Marriage is "honorable" 
in this state of sin and death, but it is of the flesh and not 
of the soul. As long as man propagates through sin and 
death — the lust of the flesh — he should marry; but a mar- 
riage and a funeral should never take place in a church, 
for the same power that makes man die, causes him to 
marry and propagate — the lust of the flesh — and makes 
the new birth necessary for the soul to see and to realize 
God as Spirit and Life. Every soul that has had the Di- 
vine Mind imparted to it as life has been resurrected to 
life — has had the death sting of the serpent— the lust of 
the flesh — eradicated from the soul, and is a child of God — 
child of life- — "and can die no more." Such a soul is a child 
of "that woild" — the world of Spirit and of Life and 
"Neither marries nor is given in marriage," "but is equal 
unto the angels, and is a child of God" — child of Life. 
Such a soul has received the Gospel — the impartation 
of the Divine Mind as life, and has been resurrected and 
born into the kingdom of life and is a Christian. The 
Christian has dominion over the earth — the flesh — death. 
When God made man in His image, He commanded him 
to have dominion over the earth — the lust of the flesh — 
death — and Live. But man yielded to the lust of the 
flesh — the dominion of the earth — the dominion of death 



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and died. Through the impartation of the Divine Mind, 
the Christ as life, to the soul, man is resurrected — is 
restored to life— and becomes a child of God — a child of 
Life — a Christian. 



CHAPTER XXXIV. 
THE CHURCH. 

The traditional term "church" is from the Greek 
word "Kyriakon," meaning "belonging to the Lord" — 
the House of the Lord. The New Testament's term for 
church is Ecclessia, which means to call out; and when 
applied to spiritual things in its original meaning, means 
God's spiritual children who belong to Him spiritually — 
that is to say, the term church spiritually means all of 
God's spiritual children who have applied the power of the 
Atonement to their spiritual beings and natures and who 
have had the carnal nature of the natural man destroyed 
in their spiritual consciousness — soul — and who therefore 
belong to God spiritually. The souls that have re- 
turned to Eden is the church. God's church is His spir- 
itual kingdom and is composed of all His spiritual crea- 
tures who are reconciled to Him and who are in harmony 
with His spiritual laws and spiritual nature; and His 
church existed in the mind of God before the creation and 
from all eternity. The visible organization on earth, 
termed the church, is only a shadow of the real church. 
The real church cannot be organized by men; it is invisi- 
ble and exists in the spiritual nature of God's children. 

Only the spiritual man belongs to the Lord; the 
physical man has no part in God's church. The physical 
man with his material senses cannot know God's church. 
The church is spiritual and the spiritual man made in 
God's image can only be of the church. The physical 
man trying to know the church and God through the 
physical and sex senses of the material man is idolatry. 
The Children of Israel were ever attempting to materialize 
the church and to worship God through the physical 
senses. The priesthood of Israel, the Scribes and the 
Pharisees were ever attempting to materialize the church 
and to convert Israel into a meterial kingdom and to give 

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unto the people a religion of idolatry — a religion of the 
sex and lust senses — in order to gratify their desire to 
worship a material god through the physical senses of 
the material man. It was this idolatry of the natural 
man and the carnal mind of the Children of Israel that 
the Prophets were ever proclaiming against, and calling 
upon the children of Israel to return to the God of Abra- 
ham, Isaac and Jacob and to worship God as Spirit with 
their spiritual natures and spiritual minds. All through 
the ages, the material man has attempted to materialize 
God. The natural man, the seed of the serpent, has said 
to the spiritual man, ' 'Worship my god through thy 
physical and sex senses" — the natural man has ever said 
to the spiritual man, "Worship my god through matter, 
know him through thy physical and lust senses." This is 
the seed of the serpent, the carnal nature of the natural 
man, destroying the spiritual nature of the spiritual man 
in his spiritual consciousness — the soul. It is the power 
of the devil, the natural man, fighting against God's 
spiritual kingdom and attempting to destroy the spiritual 
life of the spiritual man made in God's image. 

This was the devil's temptation of the Christ, and 
Christ said unto him, "Get thee behind me, Satan, for it is 
written that you shalt worship the Lord thy God only." 

God's church existed before Abraham, Isaac and 
Jacob. It existed in the souls of His spiritual children 
from the Creation. He said to Abraham, "I will make 
thy seed as the stars of the heavens," and wherever 
Abraham's seed are, God's spiritual children — the church 
— is — Souls that have returned to the Garden of Eden. 
His church is written in the innate minds and souls of His 
children and all who apply the law of the Atonement to 
destroying the seed of the serpent — the natural man — 
are members of His Church. You might destroy the Bible 
and His church would still exist. The Bible as a verbal 
revelation only lightens up the Spiritual light and life 
existing in the innate consciousness and mind of God's 
children — the spiritual man made in His image. His 
revelation was made to the innate mind and conscience 
of the spiritual man and His saving power was manifested 
to the spiritual man before there was any Bible; before 
God ever revealed Himself to man in a verbal revelation, 
as in the Bible, He revealed Himself in His spiritual na- 



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ture to the innate mind and consicence of His spiritual 
children whom He created in His own image. 

He reveals Himself and has revealed Himself to 
the innate mind and soul and spiritual nature of every 
child that He ever created in His own image; and the sav- 
ing power of the Atonement was a reality from all eternity 
and before the Creation, and every child whom God 
created in His image who has applied the Atonement as 
a saving power to destroying the carnal nature of the 
natural man in the consciousness of the spiritual man, is 
of God's kingdom, he is of God's Chruch; he belongs to 
God. 

God never left His Church to poor, mortal, erring man 
with power to control it and to own it. The Church is 
God's and the Christ is at the head of the Church, and no 
poor mortal man or set of men have any intervening 
power between the Christ as the Head of the Church and 
God's spiritual children. Salvation is a personal matter 
and every child of God has access to the Chief of God's 
Church — the Christ and His saving power. Being a mem- 
ber of the visible church organized on earth by men, does 
not save — it is only a shadow of the reality — a church 
organization cannot save, but by having the carnal man 
destroyed in the spiritual man, by the power of the Atone- 
ment you are saved; you belong to God, you are of the 
Church. You are of the Church and a member of God's 
Church because you are saved by the power of the Atone- 
ment rather than being saved because you are a member 
of the visible church upon earth organized by man. 

The Christ told the disciples, "Go preach the gospel, 
beginning in Jerusalem first." Jerusalem was the center 
of the Jewish nation. The Jewish nation was a theo- 
cracy, meaning, of course, "a nation or a people ruled 
and governed by the Lord" — that is, that God lived, 
dwelt within them as a people and directed them. Jerusa- 
lem was the heart, the center — the Temple in Jerusalem 
was the figure of Christ's body as the coming King. All 
this was symbolic of a spiritual reality, meaning God 
dwelling within man's spiritual nature, and His material 
body being the Temple in which the Spirit dwells, and 
after death He will have a spiritual body. Jerusalem was 
destroyed, but the Bible teaches that there is a New Jeru- 



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salem, a spiritual Jerusalem — a City of Soul Purity. 
Jesus told the Jews to destroy this temple and in three 
days He would raise it up again, meaning, of course, His 
physical body which the Temple was symbolic of — and 
that He would rise in the glory of His spiritual body. 

When He told His Disciples to go preach the gos- 
pel, beginning in Jerusalem, He meant, of course, be- 
ginning with their own spiritual natures first; that is, 
to get spiritual life and light themselves and then go 
preach it to the world, to begin in the City of Soul Purity, 
to have their own souls spiritually pure first. The Christ 
thereby declared that His church was a spiritual institu- 
tion, only to be known and realized by the spiritual man, 
— that the material man has no part in His church and 
His kingdom. "He saith unto them, But whom say ye 
that I am? and Simon Peter answered and said, Thou 
art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus 
answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon 
Barjona; for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto 
thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say 
unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I 
will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not 
prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys 
of the kingdom of heaven, and whatsoever thou shall 
bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatso- 
ever thou shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven" 
(Matt. 16: 15-19). Here the Christ declared that He is 
the Rock upon which He will build His Church and the 
gates of hell — the sex and lust senses — shall not prevail 
against it. It is the Christ upon whom He is going to 
build His Church — upon Himself as the Head of the 
Church, and not upon Peter. The word "Petra" means 
"rock" in Greek, and the word "Peter" is derived from 
Petra, and Christ said to Peter, "They say that I am the 
Son of the living God, and others say that I am John the 
Baptist, and others say that I am one of the Prophets, 
but whom do you say I am Peter." "And Simon Peter 
answered and said thou art the Christ, the Son of the 
living God, and Jesus said unto him, Flesh and blood 
hath not revealed it unto thee, but My Father which is 
in Heaven ; and I say unto thee thou art Peter, and upon 
this rock I will build My Chruch and the gates of hell 
shall not prevail against it, and I will give unto thee the 



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keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatsoever thou shall 
bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven, and whatso- 
ever thou shall loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven." 
The Christ did not tell Peter that He was going to build 
His Church on Peter the Rock, but that He Was going 
to build His Church on Christ, the Rock; on the Christ 
who had overcome the flesh — the sex and lust senses — of 
the man Jesus, and that the Gates of Hell — the power of 
the flesh — the sex and lust senses — should not prevail 
against it. Peter said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the 
living God," and the Christ said "upon this Rock (that is, 
the Rock that I am the Christ, the Son of the living God, 
that I have overcome the flesh, and therefore am the 
Christ) I will build My Chruch and the Gates of Hell 
shall not prevail against it. ' That is to say, I am the 
Christ, perfect Spirit, possessing all the attributes of My 
Father who sent Me, and upon this Rock, the power of the 
eternal Spirit and of My Father who sent Me, who is 
Spirit — I will build My Church, which is Spirit, and the 
Gates of Hell — the power of the carnal mind, and the 
natural man, with his lust — shall not prevail against it; 
that the lust of the carnal man and the material man shall 
not prevail against My Church, which is spiritual, and 
which I will build on My own spiritual nature, which 
possesses all the spiritual attributes of the Father who 
sent Me. And unto you, Peter, who have manifested your 
faith in Me as the Son of the living God, I will give unto 
you the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven that you may 
unlock the doors of your own spiritual nature and enter 
into full fellowship of spiritual life; and whatsoever you 
bind of your spiritual nature here shall be bound in Heaven 
and whatsoever you shall loose here shall be loosed in 
Heaven. That is to say, Unto you, Peter, by vir- 
tue of My spiritual power as the Son of the living God and 
upon your manifestation of faith in My Divinity, I will 
give you power to grow in spiritual Life and Light and 
in proportion as you exercise your spiritual nature, you 
shall grow in spiritual Light and Life, and in proportion 
as you deny your spiritual nature and yeild to the power 
of the natural man and his carnal mind you will be denied 
spiritual Light and Life. As you, Peter, overcome the 
serpent you shall have life, and as you yield to the serpent 
you shall have death. 



THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 357 

And^He^gives unto every child of God made in 
God's image— the same keys to the Kingdom of Heaven 
that He gave Peter. The Christ never said nor never 
intended to say unto poor mortal Peter that He would 
build His Church upon Peter and would give Peter and 
his successors the keys of Heaven to lock the doors 
against God's other children whom He created in His 
image. He never made Peter the keeper of the conscience 
and souls of His children with the power to exclude them 
from the Kingdom of Heaven. Christ, the Head of the 
Church, governs His own Church and spiritual kingdom 
as the Son of the living God. "From the end of the earth 
will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed; 
lead me to the rock that is higher than I." (Psalm 61: 2). 
"Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily; be 
thou my strong Rock, for an house of defense to save me" 
(Psalm 31: 2). All through the Bible the Prophets and 
the Psalmist referred to the Christ who was to come as the 
Rock, and it was upon this eternal Rock of Ages, the 
spiritual Son of the spiritual Father, whom He declared 
He would build His Church upon, and the gates of hell 
should not prevail against it — that is to say. He declared 
His church to be spiritual ; that He erected it upon Him- 
self and His spiritual nature as the Son of the living God 
and that the lust and carnal mind of the natural man shall 
not prevail against it. 

The real meaning of this passage of Scripture is just 
the opposite from what the Catholic world has construed 
it to mean in order to establish a Monarchical system of 
Church government and a Preisthood claiming the power 
to forgive and retain sins. 

The Early Church, in form of Church Government, 
was a pure Democracy. Each Church was a separate 
and distinct governing body. The Disciples of the Chris- 
tian Religion were poor and humble and they were per- 
secuted by the carnal mind and the natural man of the 
kings, rulers and the men of power of their day. They 
collected in humble places and in secret quarters to 
worship and organize churches and owned their property 
jointly and in common, as the Scripture plainly sets out 
and teaches as well as secular history. John in Revela- 
tion refers to "The Churches" in Asia, and not to the 
"Church." "I, Jesus, have sent mine angel to testify 



358 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

unto you these things in the Churches" (Rev. 22: 16). 
"The Churches of Christ salute you" (Rom. 16). The 
Apostles addressed their letters to the Churches at 
Rome, Corinth, Ephesus, and not to a Monarchical 
official Church. The Early Church Fathers, during the 
first centuries of the Christian era likewise addressed their 
communications to the Churches, for the primitive Church 
was a pure Democracy and each Church was a separate 
and distinct organization, with its local Elders or Pastors 
whom they selected as their spiritual leaders and over- 
seers. The terms "Bishop," "Pastor," "Elder," 
"Priest," and "Presbyterer" are synonymous and 
in the Early Christian Church, meant one and the 
same thing; that is, the one who was selected and 
set apart by the Church as the spiritual leader and 
overseer of the flock and local Church. Paul ordained 
Elders for the local churches wherever he established 
them and charged them to be "Faithful Overseers," 
i. e., to be faithful in Spiritual things to the body of 
Christians who had selected them and set them apart as 
their spiritual leaders. The term "elder" means older 
and in spiritual things meant, of course, one who was 
older in spiritual matters and who was rich in the power 
of the Spirit— and for this reason he was selected as the 
spiritual leader and overseer of the local church. The 
Jews had their Elders in the synagogues, and in the Early 
Christian era, the Elder was the Pastor of the local Chris- 
tian Church — and was the leader in spiritual things of the 
organization to which he belonged. The Early church 
was fashioned after the Jewish synagogue. 

But these local Churches soon began to send out mis- 
sionaries under the supervision of the Church and the 
pastor who remained in charge of the Church assumed 
leadership over the home Church and the missionary 
sent out, and by degrees and the continual increase 
of authority, the pastor who remained in charge of the 
home church became known as the "Bishop" or Chief 
Pastor. The Chief Pastors by degrees assumed more and 
more authority and finally began to meet in conclaves, 
or councils, and to legislate, to govern the Churches — 
each Chief Pastor assuming control and jurisdiction over 
his territory or "See." Then they created "Arch-Bishops" 
to have jurisdiction over a certain number of the Bishops 



THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 359 

and thus by degrees a system of laws and regulations were 
worked out to govern the Churches. When these con- 
claves, or councils of the bishops met they had to have a 
presiding officer or chief. 

Rome being the center of the world at that time, 
the Bishop of Rome, of course, had the most impor- 
tant territory or jurisdiction, and he was selected as the 
Chief and as such developed into the "Pope," or the 
Chief presiding officer of the monarchical system of man- 
made government to regulate and to govern the Churches. 
When the Emperors of Rome made the Christian religion 
the State religion, the State and the Church became united 
and when the Roman Empire fell, the Pope was the most 
important factor and he became both Emperor and Pope ; 
that is, final authority in both Church and State, and the 
system of Church government was patented after the 
Roman Empire ; the Pope taking the place of the Emperor 
and the Cardinals taking the place of the Roman Senate. 
In the days of the Roman Empire, the Emperor was 
selected from the Senate and by the Senate, so the Pope 
is elected from the College of Cardinals and by the Car- 
dinals. The Roman Empire was founded on a military 
system of government — that those in authority must be 
obeyed, was the established rule. The Roman Catholic 
Church is patented after the same system. When the 
Roman Church had thus systematized the forms of Church 
government, it brought over the old Mosaic rites and form- 
alities, hence the Roman Catholic Church united in its 
system, the formalities of the Mosaic Dispensation with 
the Pagan religions of Rome, the State government of 
Rome and the Christian system; as an institution, it is 
the combination of all. 

It has possessed devout followers and done a great 
deal of good as well as a great deal of harm. It has had 
good Popes and bad Popes — good priests and bad priests 
— good men and bad men — who believed in it as an Insti- 
tution ; but as an Institution the Christ never established 
it while on earth. He never created an Arch-Bishop — - 
a Cardinal or a Pope. The Early Church was a pure 
Democracy and was founded upon spiritual life and 
personal faith in the Christ as its Head. 

The Catholic Church claims Apostolic succession 
— that is, each Bishop is an Apostle, and the Apostle- 



360 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

ship has come down from the time of Christ from one 
Bishop to the other in succession by virtue of the ordina- 
tion of one Bishop by another Bishop. There was no such 
a thing as a Bishop, in the sense now used in the Catholic 
Church, in the Early Church. 

The term "Apostle" is from the Greek word "Apos- 
tolis," and means "one sent forth," or a messenger. 
The Early Apostles whom the Christ sent forth to preach 
His gospel were His messengers and He has been sending 
His spiritual messengers whom He calls and inspires by 
power of the Spirit to preach His gospel during all the 
ages and will unto the end of time. Moses and the 
Prophets were His Messengers. To be a messenger, 
you have to have the mind of the author. The Christ 
overcame the flesh, and all who overcome the lust of the 
flesh have His mind and are His Apostles. 

There were other Apostles, besides the twelve whom 
Jesus called around Him personally, as His witnesses 
while on earth. Paul was called to be an Apostle after 
Jesus left this earth — that is, to be a messenger for the 
Christ. "Paul, called to be an Apostle of Jesus Christ 
through the will of God, and Sosthenes, our brother, 
unto the Church of God which is at Corinth" (1 Cor. 1: 1- 

2). 

Here we have it declared that Paul was called to be 
an Apostle after Jesus left this earth ; that is, called to be 
a spiritual messenger for the Christ. And the Christ is 
daily calling men to be spiritual messengers for Him — 
that is, to be Apostles — and that, too, without inter- 
vention of any man-made system of Church government 
or man-made authority. To be an Apostle we must over- 
come the serpent as did the Christ. 

In the Primitive Church the minister or local pastor 
of the local Church was called Apostle — that is, a spir- 
itual messenger for the Christ. "Salute Andronicus and 
Junia, my kinsmen, and fellow prisoners, who are of note 
among the Apostles, and who were in Christ before me" 
(Rom. 16:7). Here we observe that in the Primitive 
Church, the Elder, or spiritual leader, of the local Church 
was an Apostle; that he was a spiritual messenger for 
Christ. 

Christ Himself was an Apostle in that He was 
the Father's Messenger sent to the spiritual children 



THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 361 

of the Father's, "Wherefore, Holy Brethren, partakers 
of the Heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High 
Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus." (Heb. 3: 1). Here 
we observe that Christ was the Great Apostle, the Chief 
Preist, the Son of God, the Spiritual Messenger of the 
Father sent to this earth to His spiritual children. And 
we observe too that here "Priesthood" means spiritual 
power, Life and Light and that "Apostle" means Spiritual 
Messenger. Every child of God is a Priest and an 
Apostle who possesses spiritual Life and is a spiritual 
messenger for the Son whom the Father sent. 

The Christ said unto Peter, "Flesh and blood hath not 
revealed it unto you" — that is, that He, The Christ, 
was the Son of the living God but that it was Spirit 
that had revealed it unto Peter that Christ was the Son 
of the living God; this same Spirit makes every child 
of God whom He made in His image and who is applying 
the power of the Atonement to his personal spiritual 
nature, a Priest and an Apostle — a spiritual child and a 
spiritual messenger. Flesh and blood — the lust of the 
flesh — did not reveal it unto Peter, but the spirit. It 
took the spirit to reveal it to Peter's soul that the Christ 
had overcome the flesh of the man Jesus. 

The natural man born of lust could not reveal it 
unto Peter that Christ was the Son of the living God; 
only the spiritual nature of Peter could know this spir- 
itual truth; only the spiritual man can know Christ as 
the Son of the living God — that is, only the spiritual 
man can know Christ the Son with all the spiritual attri- 
butes of the Father who is Spirit. 

Both the Catholic Church and the materialism of 
the Protestant world are in error. The spiritual man 
cannot be reached through the physical senses of the 
natural man. The spiritual man must be reached through 
the spiritual senses and he must know God through his 
spiritual senses. 

Prayer is spiritual desire, meditation and communion 
with God and not formalities, ceremonies and emotions 
of the natural man. By spiritual prayer, that is, silent 
spiritual desires, meditation and communion, the spir- 
itual man can know God; but the natural man, through 
the natural senses and the carnal mind, cannot know God. 



362 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

It was the natural man who made marriage a sacra- 
ment of the Church. The natural man lives for lust and 
the carnal mind. It was for the sins of the natural birth 
and the lust of the physical man that the Altar was 
erected to offer sacrifices upon, for without the sin of the 
conception and birth of the natural man there would have 
been no need of an Altar and a Sacrifice. In the Adam 
man, all died, likewise in the Christ man all were made 
alive. The Altar was erected to offer sacrifices for the 
sins of natural conception and birth and the material 
man has used it to consecrate marriage and the natural 
conception and birth. The Church should teach that 
marriage is natural and not spiritual and that the marriage 
relation is not for indulging lust for lust sake, but 
only to reproduce the race; and the children should be 
taught by their natural parents the difference between the 
natural man and the spiritual man and what nature is 
and the truth as to spiritual things. 

The Scriptures teach the truth as to the natural 
and the spiritual man, and the church should teach 
the truth as contained in Holy Writ. God's children 
have no right to deny His Word in their teachings or 
lives. 

The church on earth is a mere shadow of the reality 
of the real Church but it should be true to the real. And 
He said unto them, "With desire I have desired to eat 
this passover with you before I suffer; for I say unto you, 
I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the 
Kingdom of God. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, 
and he said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves; 
For I say unto you, I will not drink" of the fruit of the vine, 
until the Kingdom of God shall come. And he took the 
bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, 
saying, This is my body which is given for you; this do 
in remembrance of me. Likewise also the cup after supper, 
saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which 
is shed for you" (Luke 22: 15-20). Here Christ adminis- 
tered His Sacrament to His Apostles. It was the Pass- 
over. The blood placed on the post by the Children of 
Israel as they fled from bondage, represented the death of 
the physical man and the freeing of the spiritual man from 
the bondage of the natural man and was symbolic of the 
final Passover and the Crucifixion of Jesus, when He would 



THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 363 

atone for the sins of the lust of the natural conception and 
birth of the natural man and destroy the carnal power 
within the consciousness of the spiritual man. "I will not 
drink of the fruit of the vine until the Kingdom of God 
shall come" — Jesus meant to say here that He would not 
drink of the full spiritual fruit of His redeeming power 
until Spirit should triumph over matter and Life over 
death on the Cross, and the Atonement should be fulfilled 
and His Father's spiritual Kingdom should be a complete 
reality to every child of God, who avails himself personally 
of the power of the Atonement. He told them to do this 
in remembrance of Him, that is, to administer His com- 
munion in remembrance of the shedding of His blood 
and the breaking of His Body, in that the shedding of 
His blood and the breaking of His Body represented the 
death of the natural man with his carnal mind and lustful 
nature, who is at enmity with the spiritual man — the soul 
— and is death to the spiritual man — the soul. Jesus de- 
clares that His body is broken and His blood is shed as 
the final Passover, which is freedom to the spiritual man 
and death to the physical man — the final freedom of the 
soul from the flesh, which is life to the soul. 'This do in 
remembrance of Me." Daily call into your spiritual 
consciousness — soul — my Life as Life to you; that is, 
what He means when He says, "Do this in remembrance 
of Me." "I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until 
the Kingdom of God shall come," that is, "I will not eat 
of it in the spiritual kingdom until the power of the flesh 
is destroyed." 

The church on earth is the shadow and the beginning 
of the spiritual reality which will last and live through 
eternity. The Church is the life of the soul. Every soul 
that has been quickened and had the death sting of the 
serpent eradicated from the soul, is a member of the 
church. Such a soul thinks the thoughts of the Christ 
and is His Apostle. The Universal Church is composed 
of all souls that have returned to Eden — the image of the 
Father. 



CHAPTER XXXV. 
REDEMPTION AND THE CHURCH TRIUMPHANT 

In Genesis we have the Serpent; in Revelation 
we have the Dragon. The Dragon in Revelation is 
the same as the Serpent in Genesis. The Serpent and 
the Dragon are the lusts of the carnal man — the sex and 
lust senses; and the natural man, with his thoughts of 
lust and carnal desires is the seed of the Serpent; and 
the Christ, with His perfect spiritual ideas, born without 
a natural father is the seed of the woman; and all of 
God's spiritual children who partake of the Christ's 
nature. 

We have this dual nature in the Garden of Eden 
the moment the soul became conscious of the serpent — 
the natural and the spiritual man. We have the same 
dual existence in Revelation — the natural and the spir- 
itual man. This dual man is all through the Bible from 
Genesis to Revelation. The seed of the Serpent and the 
seed of the woman spoken of in Genesis 3: 15 are the keys 
that unlock Holy Writ. 

The natural man represents all that is contrary to the 
spiritual man. He, with his lust desires and carnal 
thoughts, is the Devil and the Serpent mentioned in 
Genesis 3:1. He is of the mind of the fallen angels and 
all that is unreal and darkness and death. The spiritual 
man is God's child made in His own image, and Christ is 
His Chief Priest, and this natural man and spiritual man 
is the seed of the Serpent and the seed of woman men- 
tioned in Genesis 3: 15 — and the war between this nat- 
ural man and spiritual man and the conflict of their na- 
tures is the truth of the Revelation of God's Word. 

"And there appeared another wonder in heaven; 
and behold a great red Dragon, having seven heads and 
ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his 
tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did 

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THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 365 

cast them to the earth;" (Satan carried down with him 
one third of the angels to the earth — carnal consciousness 
— the state we are now in). The woman was the mother 
of the Christ and the Child was the Christ who represents 
every element of God's spiritual nature and every truth 
of His spiritual kingdom. This Dragon — lust — the nat- 
ural man, the father of lust, was ready and is ever ready 
to destroy the power of the Christ and to destroy the 
spiritual Light and Life of the spiritual man whom God 
made in His image. 

In the twelfth and thirteenth chapters of Revelation, 
John describes this Serpent — this natural man — the 
Devil; how he fought to destroy the spiritual man; he 
describes the mighty war between the natural and the 
spiritual man. "And the great Dragon was cast out; 
that old Serpent, called the Devil and Satan, which de- 
ceiveth the whole world; he was cast out into the earth, 
and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a 
loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and 
strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of 
his Christ; for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, 
which accused them before our God day and night" 
(Rev. 12: 9-10). Here John tells us that the natural man 
with his carnal mind, which is the seed of the serpent, 
is finally destroyed within the consiousness and spiritual 
nature and the spiritual man and is cast out from the 
spiritual nature and conscious of the spiritual man 
by the saving and atoning power of the Christ. That the 
spirit as life has quickened the soul back into life and 
cast the thoughts of the serpent out of the soul. 

"These shall have one mind and shall give their 
power and strength unto the best" (Rev. 17: 13). Here 
John in the 17th chapter of Revelation narrates with 
great force and describes with marvelous effect the nature 
of the natural man and his carnal mind with its fruits — 
lust, abomination, adultery, fornication, murder and every 
element and nature which is contrary to God's nature 
and His kingdom, all of which is the seed of the serpent. 
He compares ancient Babylon with all of her sin and wick- 
edness to the harlot woman and the abominations of the 
earth — the flesh. Here we have the sexual passion of the 
woman, as in Genesis, representing the moving and 
growing force of the carnal mind of the mortal creation. 



366 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

The lust of the flesh here as in Genesis represents all of 
the elements of the animal creation, which are contrary 
to God's spiritual kingdom. John says, "All of these 
elements of the natural man, lust, adultery, fornication 
and murder have one mind and shall give their strength 
unto the beast." "The beast," of course, is the sensuality 
of the natural man. "These shall make war with the 
Lamb and the Lamb shall overcome them; for he is 
Lord of lords and King of kings, and they that are with 
Him are called, and chosen, and faithful" (Rev. 17: 14). 
Here the Lamb, of course, is the Christ, who as the Chief 
Priest of God's spiritual children has overcome the abomi- 
nations of the natural man and destroyed the natural man 
and his carnal mind within the spiritual nature and spir- 
itual consciousness of God's spiritual children by the power 
of the Atonement. "And I saw the woman drunken with 
the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs 
of Jesus" (Rev. 17: 6). 

The woman here represents Babylon, the City of 
the Sex and Lust Senses of the natural man, with all his 
power of lust, malice, hatred and murder. The woman 
is the drawing force in the mortal creation, and Babylon 
is the City of the Lust and Sex Senses, and in this city 
the soul dies. 

John describes with great effect, power and force 
how the natural man, with his lust and carnal mind, 
has fought from the beginning of time and will until the 
end of time with the spiritual man, in the 17th and 18th 
chapters of Revelation, and in the 19th, 20th, 21st, and 
22nd he tells us how the spiritual man through the aton- 
ing power of the Lamb triumphs over the natural man. 
He likewise describes how all who have not had the lust- 
ful nature and carnal mind of the natural man destroyed 
within their spiritual consciousness — souls — by the power 
of the Atonement are cast into outer darkness; that is, 
hell; it is the spiritual man cast out from the spiritual 
presence of his Maker — and who partakes of the nature 
of the natural man — which is contrary to God's spiritual 
nature. He describes with great glory how all who avail 
themselves of the Atonement and have the mind of the 
natural man destroyed within their spiritual conscious- 
ness — souls — shall live with God. They have been resur- 
rected to life eternal, and the death sting of the serpent 
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THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 367 

"And death and hell were cast into a lake of fire. 
This is the second death and whosoever was not found 
written in the book of life was cast into the lake of Are." 
Of course, this is spiritual death — this is hell — and those 
who have not had their names written in the Book of 
Life are God's children, who lived for the natural man with 
his lust and carnal mind dominating their lives and pre- 
vailing in their spiritual consciousness — souls — and have 
not had the nature of the natural man destroyed in their 
spiritual natures by the power of the Atonement. 

"And I, John, saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem 
-^the City of Soul Purity — coming down from God out 
of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband/' 
Here, John used the law of lust between the sexes — the 
most consuming and binding tie of the natural creation — 
to illustrate Christ's love in the spiritual world for the 
Redeemed. The New Jerusalem had no Temple therein — 
it is not material but spiritual. It is the City of Soul 
Purity. The thoughts of the senses and the carnal do 
not enter there. "And I saw no temple therein for the 
Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the Temple of it." 
Here the material creation had passed away and Spirit 
had triumphed over matter — life over death — and God 
and His Son and the Redeemed are the New Jerusalem 
— the City of Spirit, Light and Life. All that is unreal 
is excluded from that city of soul purity — reality, spirit 
and life. 

In Rev. 22: 2 the Tree of Life is described. It is 
the same Tree of Life that was in the Garden of Eden, 
but now the Flaming Sword which turned every way, as 
we are told in Genesis, to keep man from partaking of 
the Tree of Life after he had yielded to the law of lust 
and taken into his spiritual nature — the soul — the mind 
of the carnal man — the serpent — is removed, that he may 
partake of the Tree of Life. This Flaming Sword which 
was the lust and the carnal mind of the natural man in 
the spiritual consciousness — soul — of the spiritual man 
after he had yielded to the law of lust — the serpent — 
is now destroyed by the power of the Atonement — the 
quickening power of God as life — and the redeemed may 
partake of the Tree of Life. The redeemed partake of 
the Christ, who is the Tree of Life, and in this city they 
think again; they think not the thoughts of the flesh, 



368 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

the unreal and the serpent, but they think the thoughts 
of spirit which is reality and life. The thoughts of the 
serpent do not enter the consciousness of the soul in this 
city of spirit and life. 

John concludes the description of the Holy City 
and the triumph of Spirit over matter and life over death 
with these words: "And there shall be no night there," 
meaning, of course, that the material creation— the physi- 
cal man with his carnal mind and lust — represents night 
and that Spirit represents day; and, that the material 
creation has passed away and all is Day — all is Light. 
"For the Lord God giveth them light and they shall reign 
forever and ever. 

APPENDIX. 

That those who read this Work may know who the 
Author was while living and that he was not insane, 
a mad man or a fool, we herewith give some extracts 
from a few of the letters sent to the President of the 
United States to have him appointed to the Federal 
Bench of the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals in 1910. 

From letter of George H. Thorne, Assistant Attor- 
ney General of Colorado: "He is learned in the law 
and his wide knowledge gives him an unusually broad 
and sound view of the philosophy of law and govern- 
ment." 

From letter of ex- Governor R. B. Glenn, North 
Carolina: "He is a man of ability and learning and 
commands the highest endorsement from both Bench 
and Bar." 

From letter of General A. J. West of Georgia: 
"He is a lawyer of acknowledged ability, a student of 
great research, a gentleman of high standing, and an 
Author — a man of unusual talent and strict integrity." 

From letter of General Julian S. Carr of North 
Carolina: "He is an attorney of great ability and a 
student of great research and high personal character." 

From letter of Charles Sanford Olmstead, Bishop 
of Colorado: "Have formed a high opinion of his acute- 
ness as a thinker and qualities as a man." 

From letter of Professor J. W. Gaines, Dean of 
Shorter College, Georgia: "He is a man of irreproach- 
able character and rugged honesty." 



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Many, many, many more letters of similar nature 
which went to the White House from leading men from 
all parts of the country could be quoted — but these must 
suffice. 

WORD PERSONAL AS TO PART SECOND. 

Since this Work, as revised, went to press, the ideas 
of Part Second have come into and unfolded in the 
consciousness of the Author. He ordered the Work 
held that they might be reduced to paper and made a 
part of the Book as revised. Since the First Edition of 
this Work came from the press, some two years ago, 
frequent inquiries have been made of the Author in which 
the question has often been asked, "How are you going 
to 'replenish the earth/ if the sex relations be a sin?" 
The answer to this question is to be found in Part Second 
of this volume. If the relation of the sexes be not a sin, 
the fruition thereof would never die. If this creation 
here were of God's mind and His conception, it would not 
be afflicted with all manner and nature of suffering and 
disease, and death as the finality. 

God is perfect, and does not create anything that is 
imperfect. The imperfections of this mortal creation, dis- 
ease and death, are conceived of the mind of the lust of the 
flesh and are not conceived of and by the mind of God. 
If men would cease to sin — to indulge the mind of the lust 
of the flesh — mortal conception would cease. This crea- 
tion would end, and the spiritual conception of the mind 
of God would be revealed, and the kingdom of Satan would 
be at an end, and the Kingdom of God would be at hand. 

THE AUTHOR. 



PART SECOND. 

CONCEPTION, THE NEW BIRTH, AND 
RECAPITULATION. 

Spiritual conception was the original and Divine 
Plan of the Divine Mind. Conception is the act of creat- 
ing a concept. A concept is an idea — an image ; man is 
not matter; man is mind, and was conceived in the 
Spiritual Image of God; and as spiritually conceived was 
the Child of God, the Spiritual Father. Man is the 
spiritual concept of God — a spiritual entity, as conceived 
and beheld by God in the holiness of his own being. 
Man is an idea. Idea means to see. Man as idea and the 
spiritual concept of God is a spiritual entity and God sees 
and behold him as the perfect reflect and image of His 
own infinite and perfect being. All conception was in- 
tended originally to have been spiritually conceived, and 
all increase a spiritual increase. Man had to be spir- 
itually conceived to be the Child of God, who is Spirit. 
None are the Sons of God, except those that are spiritually 
conceived. The soul conceived by the lust of the flesh 
bears the image of the mind of the lust of the flesh, 
and must be reconceived by the Divine Mind before 
the soul becomes a Son of God. God is the All and the 
Only Source of Life — and life can only be spiritually con- 
ceived, for the soul to be a Child of God — a Child of 
Life — the soul must be spiritually conceived. The 
"Heavenly Hosts" — the angelic creations (for there are 
many) were conceived spiritually. "When the morning 
stars sang together, and all the Sons of God (Angelic 
Hosts) shouted for joy?" (Job 38: 7). "Bless the Lord, 
my soul, Lord my God, Thou art very great; Thou 
art clothed with honor and majesty; Who coverest Thy- 
self with light as with a garment; who stretchest out 
the heavens like a curtain; who layeth the beams of His 
chambers in the waters; who makest the clouds His 

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chariots; who walketh upon the wings of the wind; 
who maketh His angels spirits; His ministers a flaming 
fire?" (Psalm 104: 1-4). "Being made so much better 
than angels, as He hath by inheritance obtained a more 
excellent name than they" (Heb. 1: 4). "Bless the Lord, 
ye His angels, that excel in strength that do His com- 
mandments, harkening unto the voice of His word. Bless 
ve the Lord, all ye His hosts; ye ministers of His that 
do His pleasure" (Psalms 103:20-21). "The chariots 
of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels, for 
I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always 
behold the face of My Father which is in heaven" (Matt. 
18: 10). "But to which of the angels said He at any 
time, sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies 
thy footstool? Are they not all ministering spirits, 
sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of 
salvation?" (Heb. 1: 13-14). The angels were con- 
ceived spiritually, they are the concepts of the Divine 
Mind and bear the image of the Father, and are the 
children of God; and they that kept their first estate 
are God's ministers — the messengers of the Divine Mind. 
The man made in God's image was conceived spiritually 
and bore the image of the Father, and was equal unto the 
angels and a Child of God. When man is resurrected — 
restored to life — the life he possessed before the fall — 
conceived spiritually — he will again be "equal unto the 
angels and a Child of God, being a child of the resurrection." 
The resurrection is the spiritual conception, and this spir- 
itual conception is the gospel. None are the children of 
God except the souls that have been spiritually conceived, 
as the angels were conceived. The Sons of God must be 
spiritually conceived; God is spirit and His children 
must be spiritually conceived. "Now there was a day 
when the Sons of God (the angels and man as spiritually 
conceived in the image of God, for both angels and 
man yielded to Satan and fell) came to present themselves 
before the Lord, and Satan came also among them" 
(Job 1:6). "And again there was a day when the Sons 
of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and 
Satan came also among them to present himself before 
the Lord, and the Lord said unto Satan, From whence 
comest thou? And Satan answered the Lord and said, 
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up and down in it" (Job 2: 1-2). Satan is the lust of 
the flesh by which mortal man is conceived. He is the 
first fallen being and he tempted both the angels and 
man conceived in the image of God and caused them to 
fall. He is the father of all mental and physical disease 
and death here and of spiritual death over there. The 
human race is eaten up with private diseases and deranged 
mentally as the result of the lust of the flesh. 

"And it came to pass, when man began to multiply 
on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto 
them, that the Sons of God saw the daughters of men 
(of Adam — the flesh) that they were fair; and they took 
them wives of all which they chose" (Gen. 6:1-2). Man 
was spiritually conceived and was the concept, idea and 
image of the Divine Mind — as the spiritual concept and 
entity of the Divine Mind, man had to be spiritually 
conceived. Man had to be the concept of the Divine 
Mind to have been made in the image of God, and man 
had to be spiritually conceived to be the spiritual con- 
cept of the Divine Mind, and the Son of God. The man- 
made in God's image was spiritually conceived, just as the 
angels were spiritually conceived, and was equal unto the 
angels before he fell from his Holy state and spiritual 
conception; and when man is resurrected to his holy 
state, to a state of life and reconceived — spiritually con- 
ceived — he will be equal unto the angels (the unfallen 
angels) and a Child of God. Man in his fallen state 
(mortal conception) is in the same state as the fallen 
angels, who caused his fall and produced his mortal con- 
ception. He has eternal existence, but not eternal life. 
Only the Sons of God have eternal life. The Sons of God 
are the souls spiritually conceived — the children of life — 
and the daughters of men, are the daughters of Adam — 
the flesh (so reads the Hebrew). Adam is the mortal 
conception. "Now there was a day when the Sons of 
God came to present themselves before the Lord, and 
Satan came among them" (Job 1:6). The word Satan 
here used in the Hebrew means the "Adversary" — the 
lust of the flesh — the same as the serpent — the "Beast" 
in the Garden of Eden that caused man to fall from his 
holy state as spiritually conceived; and since the fall, 
has caused the mortal conception of man. It is the same 
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means an evil angel— a fallen being, that was originally 
conceived spiritually, but has fallen from this holy con- 
ception. The lust of the flesh is the mind of the fallen 
angels, and the consciousness of the lust of the flesh within 
the soul, since the fall, produces mortal conception. 
Satan produces propagation in this fallen state, and then 
destroys the fruition thereof. Lust fills the earth with 
mortal man and then through jealousy and hate mows 
mortal man down on the battle field. Satan, through sin 
— the lust of the flesh — afflicts mortal man with mental 
and physical disease and death. Syphillis and gonor- 
rhoea are the fruition of lust, and they are the source 
from which flows the mental and physical suffering of 
humanity. "Satan has bound" all the human race 
down with disease and death. The Christ overcame 
Satan — the lust of the flesh — and forgave men their sins 
and healed them. The gospel is the spiritual conception 
of the soul, and the gospel regenerates the soul and heals 
the sick body. The Christian has been spiritually con- 
ceived and can heal the sick body. He beholds man con- 
ceived in the spiritual image of the Father, and there is 
no sin and death in the image of the Father. The Christ 
healed the sick, because he beheld man in His own mind 
as the spiritual concept and image of the Father and 
thus cast out every thought of Satan and lust of the 
flesh from the soul. None but the Christian can heal the 
sick body. The soul must be spiritually conceived to 
behold man as the image of the Father and a Child of 
God. "Again there was a day when the Sons of God 
(souls that had been spiritually conceived) came to present 
themselves before the Lord, and the Lord said, unto Satan, 
(the lust of the flesh) From whence comest thou? And 
Satan answered the Lord and said, From going to and 
fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it." 
(Job 2: 1-2). And Satan, a fallen spirit as manifested in 
the lust of the flesh, has gone up and down in the earth in 
all ages destroying man. All diseases mentally and 
physically are the results of the lust of the flesh — sin. All 
war and strife within man come from the same source. 
Satan, a fallen spirit, is in the lust of the flesh, which pro- 
duces all mortal conception, and this his power, is in all 
mortal and material creation, and all mortal and material 
creation is controlled by the mind of Satan — sex poliza- 



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tion. The law of the Zodiac is the law of sex. The same 
force that causes the male and female to copulate — • 
sex polization, holds the planets in their orbits. The 
twelve periods of the Zodiac represent the twelve faculties 
in man. Each period of the Zodiac has a different effect 
on the mind of mortal man. The twelve constellations 
of the Zodiac influence and control the twelve faculties 
of man. These twelve faculties are represented in the 
twelve tribes of Israel and the twelve apostles. The mind 
of the mortal man is controlled by sex — and the sex and 
lust senses are controlled by the law of the Zodiac. The 
twelve tribes of Israel and the twelve apostles represent 
the truth of this law. They represent the twelve periods 
of the Zodiac and the twelve constellations thereof, which 
in turn control the mind of mortal man through the lust 
and sex senses. God "cursed the earth" — mortal creation 
after the fall. Sex and sin prevail in the planetary system 
as well as the vegetable and animal kingdom. Vain 
imagination and divination are within the sex and lust 
senses. The "star gazers" and the "whoremongers" 
are one and the same in the Bible. "The heavens and the 
earth shall pass away; then shall the sun be darkened 
and the moon shall not give her light and the stars shall 
fall from the heavens and the powers of* the heavens 
shall be shaken, and the sign of the Son of man shall 
appear, and He shall send His angels forth to gather the 
'Elect' together" (Matt. 24:29-31). When Satan's 
power shall be broken, the sex polization of the planets 
shall cease and they shall fall. When the Christ has 
overcome the reign and age of Satan, the sex polization 
of the planetary system, the vegetable, and the animal 
kingdoms will cease, and mortal propagation will be at an 
end, and time will be no more. If this creation were of 
God and reflected the Divine Mind, there would be no 
disease and no death. If the planetary system reflected 
the Divine Mind it would not pass away. But when 
Satan fell and man who was conceived in the image of God, 
yielded to the temptation of Satan and fell, all this crea- 
tion was cursed, and became mortal. The curse is in the 
sex polization of mortal creation. By this sex polization 
mortal life is propagated, and mortal life propagated 
through this sex polization is in turn influenced and 
controlled by the sex polization of the planetary system, 



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all of which reflects the Mind of Satan as a fallen being; 
and not the Divine Mind of God, and must therefore 
perish and pass away. As the Christ kingdom is ushered 
in — the reign of spirit and life — "a new heaven and a new 
earth shall appear." "And it came to pass, when men 
began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters 
were born unto them, that the Sons of God saw the daugh- 
ters of men (Adam) and they were fair and they took 
them wives of all which they chose. And the Lord said, 
My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he 
also is flesh; yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty 
years. There were giants in the earth in those days; 
and also after that when the Sons of God came in unto 
the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, 
the same became mighty men which were of old, men of 
renown; and God saw that the wickedness of man was 
great in the earth, anci that every imagination of the 
thought of his heart was only evil continually. And the 
Lord said, I will destroy man, whom I have created, 
from the face of the earth" (Gen. 6: 1-7). Jesus inter- 
preted this Scripture for us in the twenty-fourth chapter 
of Matthew. Speaking of the final destruction of the earth 
and its cause — sensuality — the power of mortal conception, 
He said, "Woe unto them that are with child in 
those days" (Matt. 24: 19). "For as in the days that 
were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, 
marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah 
entered into the Ark, and knew not until the flood came 
and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the 
Son of man be" (Matt. 24: 38-39). Sin— lust— the power 
of mortal conception will be the cause of the final de- 
struction of all material creation. If this mortal creation 
reflected God's Mind, it would not pass away. It became 
mortal when God cursed it for sin. The curse of lust is 
upon it and it must perish. God is spirit and life and only 
life can beget life; it is the law of existence that "Like 
begets like." Death cannot beget life and life cannot be- 
get death. The sex-mating — polization of the sexes, 
is not love — but lust. If it were of spirit — soul — the act 
of human propagation would not be self-destruction. 
If the attraction of the sexes were of spirit, they would 
not hate and kill each other when disappointed in the 
gratification of lust. God is the all mind and the all life 



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of the universe. All life must be begotten and conceived 
by Him as the Divine Mind. God is spirit, and all life 
is of spirit, therefore, to be a Child of God — a Child 
of Life — man must be begotten of the Divine Mind. 
When God told man to "be fruitful and multiply and re- 
plenish the earth (the flesh) and subdue it," He issued His 
spiritual decree of life to the man that He had made in His 
image to bring forth light and life to the glory of God — and 
not darkness and death. The man that He had made and 
conceived in His image, was spiritually conceived and was 
a spiritual creature and God blessed him — this spiritual 
being, that He had made in His own image and spiritually 
conceived. That is He consecrated him and made him 
holy. Then He issued His spiritual decree to man that 
had been spiritually conceived in His image, to bring 
forth life — a spiritual fruition — by begetting and con- 
ceiving life through the power of the Divine Mind — 
to overcome sin and death that then existed in the fallen 
angels" (Gen. 1: 28). God commanded man to subdue 
the earth — the flesh — and have "Dominion over the earth" 
(the flesh) and to increase in wisdom and the spiritual 
understanding of God as life, and to bring forth a spirit- 
ual increase and life to the Glory of God, who is the Father 
of all life. The man that God made and conceived in 
His image, and who was a spiritual being, could increase 
spiritually and bring forth life only by "refilling" the 
earth — the flesh — and having "dominion over it" — the 
flesh. Man, the spiritual being that God conceived and 
made in His image, had to "refill the earth" — the flesh — 
with life and "subdue the earth" — the flesh — and have 
"dominion over the earth" — the flesh, in order to bring 
forth a spiritual increase and a spiritual fruition to the 
Glory of God. And the man spiritually conceived and 
made in the image of God, had to be fruitful, multiply 
and increase spiritually in order to refill, subdue, and have 
"dominion over the earth" — the lust of the flesh. Man 
was not conscious of the lust of the flesh — sin and death — 
until he failed to obey this command. When man became 
conscious of the lust of the flesh, he became conscious of 
evil and death ; and brought forth a mortal conception — 
corporal man and death. All of this creation and propa- 
gation is of the Satanic Mind and the soul must be re- 
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The soul conceived by the lust of the flesh, bears the image 
of the lust of the flesh which is spiritual death. Hence, 
man, the soul conceived by the lust of the flesh, must be 
"born again" — must be begotten and conceived by spirit 
— life — the Divine Mind, before the soul has life and 
becomes a Child of God — a Child of Life — before man 
stands revealed as the perfect image of God the Father. 
This reconception which is spiritual, and of the Divine 
Mind is the resurrection of the soul to life, which became 
dead by virtue of having been conceived in the flesh by 
the Satanic mind. Man stands eternally revealed as the 
perfect image of the Father, in the Divine mind, and when 
resurrected from the image of the lust of the flesh of this 
mortal conception — man comes into the conscious realiza- 
tion of the eternal image in the mind of the Father and is 
a Son of God. And this conscious realization in the soul 
of man that man is perfect in the eternal mind of the 
Father, creates the new birth in the soul, and heals the 
sick body. 

There is only one Christian marriage, and that is the 
marriage of the soul to the church — the awakening of 
the soul to life from death, and the new birth of the soul, 
which unites it to God as the Child of God. There is only 
one Christian Bride, and that is the Church composed of 
all the souls that have been born again — that have been 
begotten and conceived of spirit and made the children 
of spirit and life. There is only one Christian Bridegroom, 
and he is of the Church — the Lamb — and He is Spiritually 
Pure, filled with Grace and Truth — Life and Spirit. 
There is only one Christian Bride composed of all the souls 
that have been begotten and conceived of spirit. They 
are virgins and undefiled by the lust of the flesh. The 
Bride should be a virgin. The Christian Bride — the 
Church is a virgin and is spiritually pure and filled with 
grace and truth; and is undefiled and uncorrupted by 
the lust of the flesh. Only souls that have overcome 
the lust of the flesh and death, and have been begotten 
and conceived of spirit and who have become the Children 
of God — the Children of Life — can be of the Church — 
the Bride. The Bridegroom should be pure, undefiled 
and uncorrupted by the lust of the flesh. The Bridegroom 
of the Church is pure. He was conceived by the power of 
the spirit — the Divine Mind, and is a Child of Spirit and 



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Life, and overcame the lust of the flesh — the earth; 
"Subdued it and had Dominion over it" — the lust of 
the flesh. The union of the Bridegroom and the Bride — 
the Christ and the Church — is conceived of Spirit and 
born of Life. The "New Birth" of the soul is the only 
Christian conception; and the soul thus conceived of the 
Spirit is the only Christian concept — the only Child of 
God — of Life — and the union of the Christ and the Church 
is the only Christian marriage. All other conception is 
of. the lust of the flesh. And marriage other than the 
union of the Christ and the Church is of the carnal mind 
and the lust of the flesh. It was ordained as a restraint 
upon the lust of man in this Satanic reign ; but it is of the 
lust of the flesh; and all conception of the flesh is of sin 
and the mind of Satan. Marriage in the flesh is "honor- 
able" in this Satanic Age, in contradistinction, to free 
love, and the artificial and unnatural indulging of the 
lust of the flesh, and the visible Church has a right and 
Scriptural authority to require its members to observe 
the marriage realtion when gratifying the lust of the 
flesh, and to prohibit its members from indulging in free 
love. But marriage and all conception of the flesh are of 
the Satanic mind, and the soul must be conceived of 
spirit, "born again" to know God. Marriage is not a 
sacrament of the Church. A marriage and a funeral 
should never take place in a church. The same thing 
that causes the sexes to marry is the Father and Mother 
of all death — the lust of the flesh. If man would over- 
come the lust of the flesh, he would neither marry nor 
be given in marriage, and mortal conception would cease 
and Satan's reign would end. The Early Christian Church 
understood this truth. The fish was the emblem of the 
Early Christians. Fish do not copulate. The females 
travel in schools and lay the eggs and the males travel 
in schools and fertilize the eggs of the female, and in this 
way the fish reproduce without the copulating act between 
the sexes. The Early Christians therefore, chose the 
fish as the emblem of their Faith. They lived in mind, 
thought and act above the copulating of the sexes, and 
in this state of spiritual purity, they healed the sick; 
but when the Church became Paganistic and deified the 
lust of the flesh, and took marriage into the Church as 
a sacrament, the church lost its spiritual purity and power 



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to heal the sick. It was Pagan and not a Christian institu- 
tion. The Catholic Church made it Pagan when it made 
marriage a Sacrament of the Church, and the Protestant 
world inherited the same Pagan idea from the Reforma- 
tion. "And Jesus answering said unto them, The chil- 
dren of this world marry and are given in marriage; but 
they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, 
and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are 
given in marriage." The children of "this world" (the 
Satanic conception — the idea and image of the flesh in 
the consciousness of the soul) marry and are given in 
marriage, and beget and conceive by the power of the 
Satanic mind — the serpent — and bring forth a mortal 
fruition. For the fruition of this Satanic mind to have 
life, it must be reconceived by the power of the Divine 
Mind. It must be conceived and born of the Spirit to 
bear the image and to become a Child of God. It is the 
Satanic mind — the lust of the flesh, that mates the sexes 
and by the power of the Satanic mind they bring forth 
death. The soul that has been conceived spiritually has 
received the Gospel and is the Child of God — the Child of 
Life — being the child of the resurrection and is "equal 
unto the angels." The angels are spiritually conceived. 
They are conceived of the Divine mind — God's ideas 
created into individual and spiritual beings (spiritual 
entities), and so are the children of the resurrection. They 
have lost the death sting of the Satanic conception, and 
have become the children of life by virute of having been 
reconceived and born again of the spirit. They are the 
concepts of the Divine Mind — the ideas of God created 
into individual and spiritual beings (spiritual entities), 
and not the concepts of the lust of the flesh — the ideas and 
images of the "Vain imagination" of lust. They have 
overcome the Cherubims and the Falming Sword placed 
at the Garden of Eden — the carnal and lust thoughts and 
desires in the mind and consciousness of the soul, and can 
partake of the Tree of Life— the Christ Mind as Divine 
Life, and "live forever." "He that hath an ear, let him 
hear what the Spirit sayeth unto the Churches; to him 
that overcometh will I give to eat of the Tree of Life, 
which is in the midst of the Paradise of God" (Rev. 2:7). 
All who have been conceived and born of the Spirit can 
eat of this Tree of Life — partake of the Christ Mind as 



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Life eternal — for they have overcome the lust of the flesh 
in thought and desire. They have been conceived of the 
Divine Mind, and are the concepts of the Mind of the 
Father — the perfect ideas and spiritual entities of God 
and children of life. They are Apostles. They have the 
Divine Mind of the Christ and think His thoughts and 
can bear His message — his thoughts and Mind as Life 
to souls conceived in sin and dead spiritually and in bond- 
age to the lust of the flesh. They stand revealed in the 
presence of the Mind of the Father, as His perfect spir- 
itual creation and conception. None are Apostles, ex- 
cept the souls that have been reconceived and born of 
the Spirit, and who have overcome the lust of the flesh 
in thought and desire, and think the thoughts of the 
Christ and have His Mind in the consciousness of the soul. 
'Thou hast tried them which say they are Apostles and 
are not, and hast found them liars" (Rev. 2:2). The 
souls that are conceived of the lust of the flesh and have 
not been reconceived of the spirit are not Apostles of the 
Christ— the children of life — but they are the Apostles 
of the lust of the flesh and children of death. They have 
not received the Gospel — the impartation of life — by the 
spiritual conception. They are not the spiritual concepts 
of God. They don't stand before the Father as the per- 
fect creation of His mind. They are not Spiritually re- 
vealed as the Life of God. " Jesus said unto them, 
If God were your Father, ye would love me; for I pro- 
ceedeth forth and came from God (He was spiritually 
conceived) neither came I of myself, but He sent me. 
Why do you not understand my speech? even because ye 
cannot hear My word. Ye are of your father, the Devil, 
(conceived of the lust of the flesh) and the lust of your 
Father (the mind of your Father) ye will do. He was a 
murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the 
truth (rebelled against God as life) because there is no 
truth in him. When he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his 
own; for he is a liar, and the father of it," (John 8: 42-44). 
The devil is an evil angel. A demon is an evil spirit, 
and evil is lust; and spirit is mind, and an evil spirit is 
therefore a lustful mind. The devil is a fallen spirit, 
and the lust of the flesh is his mind. "He that committeth 
sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the be- 
ginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifest 



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that He might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever 
is born of God does not commit sin for his seed remaineth 
in him and he cannot sin, because he is born of God" 
(1 John 3: 8-9). The Devil was the first to rebel against 
God, and is the father of all sin — lust — and this creation 
is the child of his mind — lust. All conception here is of 
the lust of the flesh — the mind of Satan — and the soul 
must be "born again," conceived of Spirit to become 
the Son of God. The Devil — the chief of the "evil angels," 
and his hosts of fallen spirits were cast down to hell — 
to the death of the lust of the flesh, by God, for having 
sinned against God. "For God spared not the angels 
that sinned, but cast them down to hell (to the death 
of the lust of the flesh) and delivered them into the chains 
of darkness (the bondage of the lust of the flesh) to be 
reserved unto the judgment" (2 Peter 2:4). And the 
angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own 
habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains (the 
bondage of the lust of the flesh — which is spiritual death) 
under darkness unto the judgment of the Great Day" 
(Jude 6). The Devil — the evil angel — the chief of the 
fallen spirits — as the serpent, through the desire of the 
lust of the flesh caused the fall of man, and he is the 
father of all matrimony, conception and propagation in 
the flesh" (Gen. 3: 1-9). There was no marrying and 
giving in marriage, until this fallen being, through lust 
caused the fall of man that God had conceived and made 
in His image. There was no yielding of the female sex- 
ually to the male — until after this fallen being had, through 
the lust of the flesh, caused the fall of man made in God's 
image; and there was no multiplying in the flesh, and 
bringing forth of mortal children "in sorrow" until after 
the temptation of the lust of the flesh was yielded to by 
the man made and conceived in the image of God. This 
fallen being — the devil, is the father of marrying and giving 
in marriage, conception and propagation in the flesh. 
Marriage of the flesh is made in hell — originates in the 
lust of the flesh, and the devil is the Father of all earthly 
matrimony. If men and women would overcome the 
lust of the flesh — the mind of Satan— mortal propagation 
would cease and Satan's reign would come to an end and 
Christ's Kingdom would be at hand, and spiritual con- 
ception would begin. The Christian marriage is the resur- 



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rection of the soul from the death of the lust of the flesh, 
and the mating it to God as the source of all life. All 
who have been reconceived of the Spirit are the Children 
of God. None can be the Children of God who have not 
been spiritually conceived as originally planned by the 
Divine Mind. All are the Apostles of Crist, who have been 
reconceived and born of the Spirit. The souls who have not 
been reconceived and born of the spirit are of the Satanic 
mind and Apostles of the flesh. This Satanic age is con- 
ceived outside of the Garden of Eden — out of the King- 
dom of Life — and born of the lust of the flesh, and it must 
be reconceived and born of the spirit to return to the 
Garden of Eden, and come into the Kingdom of Life. 
Man spiritually conceived in the image of God was in the 
Garden of Eden— in the Kingdom of Life. He had the 
Gospel — the Divine Mind in the consciousness of his 
soul as life. There was gold — spiritual purity in that 
Kingdom of Life, and the River of Life everflowed there — 
the Divine Mind ever pored into the consciousness of the 
soul as life. And the Tree of Life was there — the Divine 
nature — the Christ as life, to man spiritually conceived 
in the image of life. The resurrection and spiritual birth 
is the Gospel — the Kingdom of Life — the Divine Mind 
imparted to the soul as life. It is the soul returning to 
Eden. All who have not been reconceived and born of the 
spirit are the children of the Satanic mind, and the lust 
of their father they will do, and "dying they must die/' 
They are spiritually dead and the dead know nothing 
of God — the only reality and life of the universe. 

There was not any conceiving and propagating by the 
lust of the flesh, until after man eat of the Tree of Knowl- 
edge of Good and Evil — yielded to the lust of the flesh, 
the mind of the fallen spirits — and was turned out of the 
Garden of Eden — the Kingdom of Life; and the cherubims 
and the flaming sword were placed at the East of the 
Garden of Eden to keep man away from the Tree of 
Life — carnal and lust thoughts and desires — were placed 
in the mind and consciousness of the soul as death and 
man could not beget and conceive spiritually, and bring 
forth a spiritual fruition. Marrying and giving in mar- 
riage began when man fell and mortal fruition — children 
of lust — was the result. 

This Adam — this Satan within man — the lust of the 
flesh, which he was commanded to "subdue and have 



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dominion over," and to beget and conceive spiritually, 
was yielded to by the man conceived by the Divine Mind 
and made in God's image and "therefore shall a man 
leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto 
his wife, and they shall be one flesh" (Gen. 2: 24). "And 
for the same cause — the lust of the flesh — the woman's 
desire (sex desire) shall be unto her husband, and he shall 
rule over her (sexually). She shall submit to him sex- 
ually (Gen. 3: 16). And for this cause — the lust of the 
flesh — her sorrow and conception shall be greatly multi- 
plied and in sorrow shall she bring forth children" (Gen. 
3: 16). If they would overcome the lust of the flesh, 
the female's desire would cease to be unto the male, and 
she would cease to desire to submit to him and his desires 
to cleave unto her would cease. Mortal conception and 
propagation would come to an end and the Satanic Age 
would close, and the Kingdom of Christ — spiritual con- 
ception — would be at hand. The woman's conception 
is of sin — the lust of the flesh, and in violation of the Di- 
vine plan and therefore the fruition thereof, is brought 
forth in sorrow and pain, and are the children of darkness 
and death, and must be reconceived and born of the 
spirit to become the Children of Life. If the Divine 
plan of spiritual conception and fruition had not been 
violated and the lust of the flesh yielded to, there would 
have been no marriage and no giving in "marriage, and no 
fruition of the lust of the flesh. For the violation of the 
Divine plan of a spiritual conception and propagation God 
joined them together as one flesh, and "What God has 
joined together let not man put asunder." They were 
joined together as the penalty for sin, and man cannot 
set aside God's judgment. It is just and the penalty 
is death; spiritual death, and the "dead know nothing." 
The spiritual dead have no consciousness of God as life. 
If the Satanic mind — the lust of the flesh — could be over- 
come in this Satanic Age, men and women would cease 
to be joined together as one flesh, and would cease to 
beget and conceive and bring forth mortal fruition. If 
the lust of the flesh were overcome, reconception and a 
"New Birth" would not be necessary for the soul to 
become a Child of God. The Primitive Christians under- 
stood this truth and did not marry. They that were 
married when Jesus ascended lived as brothers and sisters 



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and did not propagate in the flesh. For this reason the out- 
side world confounded the Primitive Christian sect with the 
Essenes. The Jews were divided into three sects, "Sad- 
ducees, Pharisees and Essenes/' The Essenes were a 
rural and simple people that resided in the country and 
did not propagate. They recruited their sect from the 
outside world; so did the Primitive Christian sect, and 
in this state of spiritual purity they healed the sick. 
This "New Birth" is of spiritual conception, as the Di- 
vine Mind originally intended, and removes the death 
sting and poison of the serpent, that joins man and 
woman together as one flesh. All who have been con- 
ceived of spirit, have been born into the Kingdom of 
Life. They have the Gospel — the Divine Mind revealed 
to them as life. "The same came to Jesus by night, and 
said unto Him, Rabbi, we know that Thou art a teacher 
come from God, for no man can do these miracles that 
Thou doest except God be with him." "Jesus answered 
and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except 
a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of 
God." (John 3:2-3). If this conception were of God, 
there would be no need of a "New Birth." If conception 
and propagation here were the Divine plan there would 
be no death. None are the Sons of God — the Children 
of Life — except those who have been spiritually conceived, 
as the Divine Mind originally planned. Jesus made wine 
of water, at the marriage in Cana. (John 2: 1-11). 
Wine is a symbol of blood. Jesus said, "Flesh and blood 
cannot enter the Kingdom of God" — the Kingdom of 
Life. Blood is the essence of lust, and lust is spiritual 
death. This miracle of the Master taught a Spiritual 
Truth — that marriage and mortal conception is of the 
lust of the flesh, and the fruit in thereof, is death. Jesus 
said, "Moses because the hardness of your hearts suffered 
you to put away your wives; but in the beginning it 
was not so." (Matt. 18: 8). When the lust of the flesh 
has been gratified, the soul is conscious that it has been 
deceived, the heart becomes hard — sin cursed by the lust 
of the flesh — and the sexes hate and despise each other. 
"In the beginning it was not so." The soul was pure and 
knew not sin — lust — evil and death. Spiritual conception 
was possible by the Divine plan, until the lust of the 
flesh was indulged. Then they were joined together and 



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their flesh were made as one, and the fruition thereof was 
death. For the hardness of your heart, he (Moses), wrote 
this precept (divorce). But from the beginning of crea- 
tion God made them the male and the female, and they 
were not joined together as one flesh, until there was sin — 
until they yielded to the lust of the flesh. And when in 
the house of His disciples, He interpreted to them what 
He meant by this saying, and said unto them, "Verily, 
I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom 
of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein." (Mark 
10: 15). The child has no consciousness of the lust in the 
soul, and every soul that enters the kingdom of God must 
become unconscious of lust. The lust of the flesh must 
be overcome in the consciousness of the soul for the soul 
to come unto the Kingdom of Life. 

The Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden is Christ— 
the anointed — God's life — the Divine Mind revealed as 
life. God is life. Gen. 3: 22. God is life, and He com- 
manded the man He made and conceived in His image and 
unto whom He revealed Himself as life to bring forth 
Spiritual fruition and Spiritual increase by the power of 
life — by the Divine Mind revealed to man as life. This 
Spiritual fruition and increase had to be of Spiritual con- 
ception — only life can beget life. 

The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was the 
lust of the flesh — the lust and sex senses— the mind of the 
Fallen Angel — Spiritual death. Only darkness and death 
can beget and conceive darkness and death. The Spiritual 
being — man — made and conceived in God's image was 
told to "subdue and have dominion over" the Tree of 
Knowledge of Good and Evil — the lust of the flesh — and 
to beget and conceive spiritually by the power of the 
Divine Mind which was revealed to man as life; and to 
bring forth a spiritual fruition to the Glory of God, as 
the Father of all life. But man yielded to the lust of the 
flesh — to the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil — to 
the power of the Satanic Mind — and begot and conceived 
by the power of the lust of the flesh — darkness and death — 
and hence brought forth, not a spiritual fruition, but a 
carnal fruition; and the "new birth" became necessary 
before man could reenter the Garden of Eden — the King- 
dom of Life and be a child of God. Man must be begotten 
and conceived of the Spirit — life — in order to be a child 



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of God — of life. A concept is an image — an idea. An idea 
is conceived and held in the mind independently of the 
senses. It is the creation of the mind independently of 
the senses. Man is the spiritual entity conceived by the 
Divine Mind independently of the senses of the flesh. 
Man was conceived in and of the Divine Mind, independ- 
ently of the mind of the lust of the flesh. The man that 
God made in His image, was His spiritual concept — idea 
and image, a spiritual entity, and this man that God made 
and conceived in His image, was a child of God until he 
lost his inheritance to life by sin — the yielding to the lust 
of the flesh. If man had not fallen, but had retained his 
holy state of life, he would have begotten and conceived 
of Spirit and his fruition would have needed no "new 
birth;" for his fruition would have been begotten and 
conceived in "Holy Wedlock" — that is by the Divine 
Mind of God, and would have been the children of Holy 
Wedlock. By the Tree of Life— the Divine Mind of God 
as life — man was commanded to bring forth spiritual 
fruition to God. All other wedlock is of the flesh. It is 
of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil — the lust of 
the flesh and its fruition is death. "But of the Tree of 
Knowledge of Good and Evil — thou shalt eat of it; 
for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shall surely 
die" (Gen. 2: 17). The Hebrew reads, "Dying thou shalt 
die," and man has been begetting and conceiving in sin — 
by the lust of the flesh — and he will continue to beget 
and conceive in sin — by the power of the lust of the flesh — 
and bring forth death and "Dying he shalt die;" and the 
"new birth," a spiritual conception is necessary for man 
to become the child of God — the perfect concept of the 
Divine Mind — the perfect idea and image of the Father 
as the all mind and all life. Man begotten and conceived 
of the lust of the flesh, to behold God as his Father must 
be reconceived. He must be "born again," before he can 
see God face to face. God is only seen by the spiritual 
senses, and through the vision of the soul. And for man to 
see with his spiritual eyes, and to behold through the vision 
of the soul, he must overcome the lust of the flesh. 

When man "subdues the earth — the lust of the flesh — 
and has dominion over it" as he was commanded to do, 
he will beget and conceive spiritually and his fruition will 
need no "new birth" to become the child of God — the 



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perfect concept of spirit and the idea and image of the 
Father; but as long as he begets and conceives by the 
lust of the flesh, his fruition will have to be rebegotten 
and reconceived of spirit — "born again" — before becoming 
the children of life. The begetting and conceiving of the 
lust of the flesh is the essence of insanity. The soul and 
mind of the parents are drunk upon the lust of the flesh, 
when begetting and conceiving, and the soul thus begot- 
ten and conceived of lust bears the image of the thoughts 
in the minds and souls of the parents. The lust desires of 
the parents while in the act of begetting and conceiving 
is bequeathed to the soul of the offspring. The soul of the 
offspring bears the lustful image in the minds of the 
parents, when begotten and conceived. 

The lower animal creation was not told to "subdue 
the Earth" — the lust of the flesh — and to have "Dominion 
over it." They were not made in God's image. They 
could not lose the image of God. They could not be- 
come conscious of sin, evil and shame, neither could they 
bring forth by the power of the Divine Mind, a spiritual 
fruition — concepts — ideas and images — conceived and 
made in God's image. They could not beget and conceive 
a fruition that would be the children of God — that would 
be in the image of God. But man who was made in God's 
image and was the perfect concept of the Divine 
Mind — the perfect idea and image of God, could and bring 
forth a spiritual fruition in the image of God. Man was 
not "cursed" until he partook of the lust of the flesh, and 
lost the image of God. The "curse" of the lust of the 
flesh was not placed upon the woman, until she yielded 
to the temptation of the serpent — the lust of the flesh. 
The "Lord God" did not "multiply her sorrow" until she 
had yielded to the lust of the flesh. He did not say that 
her "desire should be unto her husband" — that is she should 
desire to yield to him sexually, and that "he should rule 
over her," until after she yielded to the lust of the flesh. 
She had to Jose the image of God in the mind and the 
consciousness of the soul and she had to conceive the lust 
of the flesh, in the image of her mind and the consciousness 
of her soul, before she had a desire to yield to the male. 

The attraction between the sexes is the Adam and 
Eve within them. It is of the sensual. It is the image of 
the lust of the flesh, conceived in the mind and the con- 



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sciousness of the soul that mates the sexes and causes them 
to gratify the lust desires of the flesh, which is spiritual 
death to the soul. Mary conceived Jesus, the Christ, 
by the power of the Holy Spirit — by the power of the 
Divine Mind revealed unto her as life — without a desire 
of the lust of the flesh being conceived in the image of the 
mind and the consciousness of the soul. Joseph as a man 
did not attract her as a woman. If so, she could not have 
conceived spiritually. The Lord God did not place the 
"curse" upon Adam, until he yielded to the lust of the 
flesh. Then God "cursed" the earth — all mortal and 
material creation as Satanic and all conception of mortal 
creation became Satanic. If conception here were spir- 
itual, man would never die. If this creation were con- 
ceived of God, man would not be afflicted with disease, 
mental derangement and death. If the material creation 
reflected the Mind of God, the heavens and the earth 
would never pass away — the stars would never fall. 
A new heaven and earth — s spiritual creation, would not 
have to be created, if this "cursed" creation reflected 
God's Mind. 

A spiritually pure man who has subdued the earth — 
the mind lust of the flesh — and has "dominion over it" 
does not appeal to the lust of women. Jesus as a man and 
the Apostles as men, never appealed to the lust of women — 
to women as women; but they appealed to the opposite 
sex only as children of God. They had subdued the 
earth (mind of lust of the flesh) and had dominion over it. 
They had been begotten and conceived by the spirit and 
were children of God. Their souls were the perfect con- 
cepts of the Divine Mind — and in the image of the Father. 
The Lord God never turned man, conceived and made in 
God's image, out of the Garden of Eden, out of the King- 
dom of Life, out and from the presence of God as re- 
vealed life, until man indulged in the lust of the flesh. 
The Lord God never placed at the Garden the Cherubims 
and the flaming sword — the carnal thoughts and the lust 
desires of the flesh in the consciousness of the soul — to 
keep man from the Tree of Life — from the conscious 
realization of God as the all life — until man indulged the 
lust of the flesh and partook of the Tree of Knowledge of 
Good and Evil. Had man not yielded to the mind of lust 
of the flesh, all begetting and conceiving would have been 



THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 389 

spiritual and the fruition thereof would have been the 
children of God — children of life. The "new birth" 
would not have been necessary for us to become the Sons 
of God — the Sons of Life — the perfect concepts of the 
Divine Mind— the perfect ideas and images of the Father. 
But after man yielded to the earth — the mind of the 
lust of the flesh — instead of "subduing the earth and hav- 
ing dominion over it" he begot and conceived in sin (by 
the lust of the flesh) and the fruition thereof was a child 
of darkness and death, and the "new birth" — a spiritual 
conception — became necessary for man to become a 
child of God— the perfect spiritual idea and image of the 
Father, who is Spirit and Life. "Like begets Like." 
Darkness begets darkness — death begets death — light 
begets light and life begets life. Man begotten and con- 
ceived of the mind of the lust of the flesh bears the image 
of the mind of the lust of the flesh. God is life, and for 
man to become the Son of God he must be begotten and 
conceived of life; he must be begotten and conceived of 
spirit. All conception was intended to have been of Spirit, 
until sin — the mind of lust — entered into the world — 
until man yielded to the lust of the flesh. Had man not 
eaten of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, his 
fruition would have been spiritual — had the image of 
life — and the children of God. Had man obeyed God's 
command his fruition would have been begotten and con- 
ceived by the power of the Mind of Spirit and his offspring 
would have had the image of life and have been the chil- 
dren of God — the children of life. 

Man who was spiritually conceived, was in the Garden 
of Eden — in the Kingdom of Life— in the Presence of 
God — and had the Divine Mind revealed to him as life — 
until he indulged the mind of the lust of the flesh— then 
the Lord God said, "Lest he put forth his hand and partake 
also of the Tree of Life, and eat, and live forever; there- 
fore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of 
Eden (from the Kingdom of Life where man had the 
Gospel, the God Mind) 'to till the ground from whence 
he was taken.' So he drove out the man; and He placed 
at the east of the Garden of Eden, cherubims and 
a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way 
of the Tree of Life" (Gen. 3: 22-24). Man eat of the Tree 
of Life — reflected God, as God's perfect concept — idea 



390 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE 

and image— and was a child of God — life — until man 
indulged the mind of the lust of the flesh. Man was 
living in the day of the "Sabbath" — in a Spiritual age. 
The "Sabbath" is a day of rest — the day of spiritual life. 
The Christ healed on the "Sabbath." It was the day 
"God sanctified"; man in Eden, lived in this day of Life, 
and by overcoming the mind of the lust of the flesh, he 
returns to Eden, to the "Sabbath" day, the day of life. 
This is the eternal day to the soul that is spiritually con- 
ceived. Jesus said the Son of Man is the Lord of the 
Sabbath, and He healed on this day, for none can be of the 
Sabbath except those who have overcome the lust of the 
flesh. Man conceived and made in God's image, had the 
Divine Mind revealed to him as life, and lived in this 
eternal day of Spiritual Life, which God has "sanctified." 
Man was of the "Sabbath," the Eternal Age of Spiritual 
Rest, until man indulged the mind of the lust of the flesh. 
Man had Divine thoughts only, until he indulged the 
carnal in thought and act. Until then man was a child 
of God — a child of Life — and had the Gospel and the God 
Mind, and conceived in mind and the consciousness of the 
soul the ideas and thoughts of God. In this state of 
mental and spiritual purity, man would have begotten and 
conceived spiritually, and his offspring — spiritual con- 
cepts — would have been in the perfect image of God; 
and the children of God and the children of the mind and 
spirit; and not the offspring of the mind of the lust of the 
flesh. But when man indulged the mind of the lust of the 
flesh in thought and act, he conceived the image of the 
mind of the lust of the flesh and death, in mind and the 
consciousness of the soul; and the carnal thoughts and 
desires of his mind constituted the Cherubims and the 
flaming sword that turned him out of the Garden — out of 
the Kingdom of Life — out of the presence of God, the 
only and all life. The mind of the lust of the flesh in the 
consciousness of the soul separates man from God as life, 
man ceased to reflect God as life, and ceased to be in the 
perfect image of God as God's child. He reflected the 
image of the "Beast" — the mind of the lust of the flesh — 
the serpent — fallen spirits — and became the child of 
death. The soul that has not been spiritually conceived 
bears the image of the mind of the lust of the flesh. It 
has eternal existence, but not eternal life. It is spiritually 



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dead and the dead know nothing. Rev. 14:9-10. The 
image of the "Beast" — the mind of the lust of the flesh — 
is on the face of the human race, the stare of the eye, the 
imbecile smile, and the rage of the maniac, are the images 
of the "Beast." The serpent destroys soul and body. 
The human race is "bowed down by Satan." The in- 
dulging of lust has destroyed the bodies and the minds of 
of the race. Satan has the human family within his 
grasp, and only the Christ can loose the soul and the body 
from his grasp and restore the soul to life and heal the 
sick body. The Christ Life — the overcoming of the mind 
of lust — will restore the mentally deranged to their proper 
minds and heal the body. 

Man begot and conceived and brought forth the child 
of death, by the power of the lust of the flesh, and this 
child of death "must be born again" to be- the child of life 
— the child of spirit — the Son of God — the perfect idea 
and image of the Father. Son means that which is be- 
gotten, and beget means to generate — to produce — to 
bring forth into existence. To conceive means to form 
in the mind, an idea — an image. The man that God made 
in His image was conceived in the mind of God — without 
the mind of the lust of the flesh — and He was the perfect 
concept — idea and image of the God Mind — Spirit. 
Man was the creation of God's Mind, and was Spirit and 
Life and man thus conceived was a child of God — a child 
of spiritual life and God issued His spiritual decree to man 
— the child conceived in His image and by and in His 
mind, to retain this state of life as the child of God, as a 
child of spirit and life; and to beget and conceive spirit- 
ually and to bring forth spiritual fruition to God the 
Father of all life. This perfect man — the perfect idea and 
image of God — as a perfect spiritual entity — eternally 
existed and exists in the Mind of God. God eternally 
beholds man as His perfect image and concept, and when 
man returns to the perfect image of the Father, as eter- 
nally conceived in the Father's Mind, man is spiritually 
conceived and becomes a Son of God. Man disobeyed 
God's command and indulged the lust of the flesh in 
thought and in act, and lost the image of God as life in 
the consciousness of His Mind and soul, and begot and 
conceived by the power of the lust of the flesh, and brought 
forth children unto death. But this did not destroy man 



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as the perfect image of the Father, in the Mind of the 
Father, as eternally conceived. Mind is the Father and 
mother of all offspring, (life is not in matter). The image 
in the mind, when begetting and conception takes place 
is reflected in the fruition. The truth of this law is in 
all the universe. When the male and female of the horse 
are begetting and conceiving, if a white horse is carried 
in front of the female and her attention fixed on it, the 
colt will be white. The color of the offspring, by this law, 
can be determined. That which is in the Mind and con- 
sciousness of parents when begetting and conceiving, is 
reflected in the offspring. This is true of all the lower 
animal kingdom and it is true of man. When man is in 
the act of begetting and conceiving in this fallen state, 
his mind beholds the image of the mind of lust, jealousy 
and self destruction, in the consciousness of the soul — 
the Mind of the fallen angels. Each of the sexes is trying 
to destroy the other, when copulation takes place. Propa- 
gation in this fallen state is not an act of love, but of self 
destruction, jealousy, lust and death. And the soul thus 
conceived bears the image of the mind of death and not of 
life — the image of the mind of the fallen angels, and not 
the image of the life and mind of the Christ. All concep- 
tion here in the flesh is of the mind of the fallen angels — the 
mind of the lust of the flesh; and bears the image of 
death, and "must be born again" to bear the image of 
Christ. The mortal parents, in a drunken state of mind 
beget and conceive a drunkard. The child has the desires 
and appetites that are in the minds of the parents when 
the child is begotten and conceived. Lust is the mind 
and consciousness of the souls of the parents, when the 
child is begotten and conceived, therefore the offspring 
is a child of Satan and must be "born again' ' to be the 
child of God. The mind of lust is in the mind and con- 
sciousness of the souls of the parents when mortal propa- 
gation takes place and the soul and mind of the offspring 
bears the image of the mind of lust. The natural parents 
in this Satanic age should be as pure as possible, when 
begetting and conceiving, and the mother should be pure 
in thought during gestation. The child of pure parents 
will be less lustful and more spiritual. But there must be 
some lust in the minds and souls of all mortal parents when 
mortal propagation takes place, and the offspring bears 



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the image of lust and must be conceived of spirit to be- 
come the children of God. Mind is Father and Mother 
of offspring and not matter. Had man kept the perfect 
image of God, as the all life, in the consciousness of the 
soul, he would have begotten and conceived spiritually, 
and the fruition thereof would have been the perfect image 
and concept of the Divine Mind, the perfect idea and 
image of God and the child of God. Mary was in this 
state of Holy Grace — Holy Life — when she conceived 
Jesus. She had within the consciousness of her soul the 
perfect concept of the Divine Mind — the perfect idea and 
image of the Father. The Holy Ghost came upon her and 
she conceived the "Son of God" — the perfect idea and 
image of the Father. If man had retained this state of 
Grace and Holiness, all begetting and conceiving would 
have been spiritual as was that of Jesus. 

In this fallen state, the image of the serpent — the 
mind of lust — and not the image of God, is in the mind and 
consciousness of the soul, when the offspring is begotten 
and conceived, and the fruition thereof is the image of the 
serpent — the mind of lust — fallen spirits — and not of God. 
The fruition inherits the sin— the mind of lust — in the 
mind and soul of the parents when begetting and con- 
ceiving. "Like begets like." Jesus was conceived spir- 
itually and therefore the Son of God. John 10: 25. The 
thoughts and desires of the mind of the flesh were not in 
the mind and soul of Mary when she conceived Jesus. 
She had overcome the thoughts and desires of the lust of 
the flesh. The Holy Ghost came upon her — the Holy 
Life came into the consciousness of her soul and mind — 
the Divine Mind was revealed to her as Life — and she had 
the perfect image of God — the Holy Father of All Life, 
within her mind and the consciousness of her soul, when 
she conceived Jesus, and he was therefore the Son of God ; 
conceived by the power of the Spirit and Life; and had 
all power over death and hell — the mind of lust and death 
of the flesh. Because He was the Son ol God — spiritually 
conceived and worshipped His Father, the sons of the 
mind of the lust of the flesh, who worshipped their father, 
Satan — the mind of the lust of the flesh — persecuted and 
killed Him. There was no death until man indulged the 
mind of the lust of the flesh in thought and desire — until 
man conceived the image of the serpent and death in the 



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consciousness of the mind and soul, then man died— 
lost the image of God and ceased to conceive the image of 
God in the consciousness of the mind and soul — and 
"dying man died." Gen. 3: 18. Man was conceived and 
made in the image of God, and was therefore, ashamed 
when he lost the image of God, by conceiving sin — the 
mind of the lust of the flesh — and death through the lust 
of the flesh — and "Hid himself" and sought to conceal 
and to cover up the generative organs. The lower animal 
creation has no shame. They beget and conceive by the 
lust of the flesh, without shame. They were not made 
in God's image and therfore could not lose that image — 
could not sin. They were not told to "subdue the earth" 
— the flesh — and have "Dominion over it" — the flesh — 
for they were not made in the image of God. But man 
who was made in the image of God, and commanded to 
"Subdue and have dominion over the earth" — the flesh — 
and to beget and conceive spiritually and to bring forth 
spiritual fruition; when he yielded to the mind of the lust 
of the flesh and lost the image of God, was ashamed — 
he felt the guilt of sin — the mind of the lust of the flesh. 
Gen. 3: 21. And the guilt of sin — the mind of the lust 
of the flesh — and shame have been bequeathed to all the 
sons of Adam — mortal man. Man in all ages has been 
ashamed of the generative organs and the generative act 
between the sexes. The most benighted Savage, by in- 
tuition, realizes that sin and shame are written there. 
He will permit all his body to go in a nude state, except 
the generative organs. By instinct he feels ashamed of f 
the generative organs and coveres and conceals them. He 
is ashamed of the generative act between sexes and com- 
mits the act in secret. In the consciousness of his soul 
he realizes that sin and death are written there, and that 
the generative act is of sin — the mind of the lust of the 
flesh — and death. 

All mythology is of the lust and sex senses. The gods 
of mythology are the senses of the lust of the flesh. 
They express the mind of the senses — the mind of lust — 
mythology has a god for every attribute of mortal mind. 
All drama of mythology is of the lust and sex senses. 
The stage of human action is the mind of the lust of the 
flesh. The Planetary System which is controlled by the 
law of sex, affects the actors upon this stage. The law of 



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the Zodiac is the law of poison and lust. Both man and 
animal propagate by the law of the Zodiac. The mind of 
the lust of the flesh is controlled by the law of the Zodiac. 
Lust and passion, in all mortal creation, come and go with 
the seasons. The carnal mind is affected by the seasons. 
The law of the Zodiac is the law of the Flaming Sword of 
the Garden of Eden. The planets, as they move in their 
orbits, affect the poison and lust of the animal kingdom. 
The King of Day as he ascends the heavens and makes 
his annual journey, affects the lust and the poison of 
mortal man and all animal creation. The sex of the vege- 
table kingdom is controlled by the journey and the Light 
of the Sun. Sex — the law of life and death is the law of 
the Zodiac. And all, having been cursed for sin, all must 
perish. The law of the Zodiac is the law of the Garden of 
Eden. Every time the sexes indulge the lust of the flesh 
the soul is driven from the Garden of Eden, from com- 
munion with God as the Father of All Life. The story of 
the Garden of Eden is repeated every time begetting and 
conception takes place. Every time the mind of the lust 
of the flesh is indulged, the soul is conscious of the truth 
of the story as related in the Garden of Eden allegory. 
The soul is in outer darkness when the lust of the flesh 
is being gratified. "Then when lust hath conceived, it 
bringeth forth sin and sin when it is finished bringeth 
forth death." (James 1: 15). When lust is conceived 
in the soul and mind it produces sin — mortal conception — 
mortal man — and the end of this mortal man is natural 
and spiritual death; and he must be conceived of the 
Spirit to realize God as life. "Ye adulterers and adul- 
teresses know ye not that the friendship of the world 
(the lust of the flesh) is enmity with God (life)? Whoso- 
ever therefore will be a friend of world (the lust of the 
flesh) is the enemy of God" (James 4:4). There is no 
reconciliation between life and death — between the life 
of the Spirit and the death of the lust of the 
flesh. That which is conceived of the lust of the flesh is 
death and that which is conceived of Spirit is life. This 
conception of the death of the lust of the flesh is influenced 
and controlled by the law of the Zodiac. Each month of 
the year affects the lust and the sex senses differently. 
Mortal mind and the lust of the flesh are affected by the 
journey of the planets in their orbits. The vegetable and 



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animal kingdoms propagate by the law of the seasons. 
The law of sin (the mind of the lust of the flesh) of the 
Garden of Eden is the law of sin of the Zodiac, and under 
this law, all material creation is cursed and all mortal 
conception must die. This sin of the "curse" — the mind 
of the lust of the flesh— must be overcome before there 
can be a spiritual conception and the life of God realized 
as the life of the Universe. 

Man has to be of Divine Origin in order to be the 
Son of God — man, before the fall, was of Divine origin, 
and the Son of God. Since the Fall he is the Son of the 
Mind of the lust of the flesh — Satan — man in this fallen 
state is not the child of God — the child of life — but the 
child of Satan — the child of the lust of the flesh — the child 
of death. Man in this fallen state is struggling to return 
to life and to become the child of Divine Origin, and to be 
spiritually conceived and a Son of God. In proportion 
as he overcomes the mind of the lust of the flesh, he is 
making his way back to a Divine and Spiritual conception. 
When spiritually conceived he will be the Son of God. This 
law of truth is revealed to us. Melchizedek was spirit- 
ually conceived — "Without father or mother," having 
neither beginning days nor the end of life. Gen. 14: 18; 
Ps. 110: 4; Heb. 9: 4. Man as the child of God has no 
beginning or end in the eternal mind. Man as a perfect 
spiritual being is the eternal concept and idea of the 
Divine Mind — always existed and will always exist in the 
consciousness of the Eternal and Divine Mind of God. 
Man in his fallen state does not change God's eternal 
conception of him as the perfect conception of the Father. 
Man when he fell changed in his own mind and con- 
sciousness, but God's conception of him as the perfect 
concept and image of the Father never changed. God is 
perfect, and he can only behold his own creation — the 
concepts of his own mind, conceived in his image, as 
perfect. The spiritual creation of God, conceived in His 
image may have fallen from the holy state in which he 
conceived it in his image; but this does not change the 
perfection of his eternal mind. He still beholds it in the 
consciousness of his own eternal mind' as perfect, and in 
proportion as this fallen spiritual creation returns to the 
state of perfection as beheld by God in the consciousness 
of his own eternal mind, in that proportion it reflects the 



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holiness of God in mind and thought and the creatures 
thereof become the Sons of God. 

Melchizedek was the spiritual conception of the 
Father, without natural parents, and kept the holy state 
of his spiritual conception. He had neither beginning nor 
end of days, in the consciousness of -the Divine Mind. 
He as a spiritual concept always existed in the conscious- 
ness of the Divine Mind. He was the pre-figure of the 
Christ, and the Christ always existed in the consciousness 
of the eternal and divine mind as perfect life. As man in 
this fallen state, overcomes the Satanic mind — the mind 
lust of the flesh — he enters into the consciousness of that 
perfect spiritual state, in which, the Father as the perfect 
and eternal mind beholds him, and stands revealed before 
the Father as the perfect image of the Father, and is 
spiritually conceived and becomes the Son of God. This 
perfect spiritual conception is demonstrated in the con- 
ception of Melchizedek and the birth of Jesus, the Christ ; 
and approximated in many other places in the revealed 
Word. 

The Lord appeared unto Abraham in the plains of 
Mamre, as Abraham sat in his tent door, in the form of 
angels and talked with Abraham and told Abraham that 
Sarah should conceive and bring forth a child. Gen. 
18: 16. Abraham and Sarah were beyond the age of 
propagation, according to natural law. Gen. 18: 11. 
The Lord said that He would return at the appointed 
time and Sarah should conceive a son. Gen. 18: 14. 
The law of material sense and the carnal mind were 
nearly overcome in this conception and birth. The 
spiritual sense and understanding that enabled Abraham 
to talk with God produced this approximated spiritual 
conception and birth. Abraham did not see the angels 
with the human eye — material sense — and talk with 
them with his human tongue, but he saw them through 
the eye of the soul — the spiritual senses. They were pro- 
jected with visible form into his consciousness through 
the spiritual senses of the soul. These spiritual visions 
are only projected into the consciousness of the soul as 
man overcomes material sense — the lust senses of the 
flesh. Angels are everywhere, but we cannot see them 
because we have no spiritual eyes. God is ever present, 
but we have no consciousness of His presence, because 



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we are spiritually dead. Abram's name had been changed 
to Abraham before he talked with God and His angels — 
Abraham had been spiritually conceived when he saw 
angels and talked with them and conceived them in his 
mind and with the vision of his soul. Only the spiritually 
conceived can converse with angels and God; the spir- 
itual birth is the overcoming of the mind of the lust of the 
flesh, and material sense; and the soul that overcomes the 
mind of the lust of the flesh and the material sense, comes 
into the realization of the spiritual senses and can con- 
verse with angels and God in the language of spirit. 
Abraham was in this state of spiritual understanding 
when he saw and conversed with angels, and as a result 
of this state of spiritual life, natural law and material 
sense were overcome and a Son was conceived and born 
unto him and Sarah in their old age. All the "seed" of 
Abraham are spiritually conceived. This conception 
in violation of natural law and material sense, was sym- 
bolic of the "seed of Abraham." All the "seed of Abra- 
ham" are spiritually conceived and they are as the "stars 
of the heavens." And they shall set down at the right 
of the Throne of God and give praise to the Lamb. They 
are the Sons of God. "He is the God of Abraham, Isaac 
and Jacob. He is not God of the dead, but the God of the 
living." The "seed of Abraham" constitute the "church." 
They are the "ecclessia." They are the "called out," 
from death to life. They are the "elect," and they can 
never die, for they are "equal unto the angels" and are 
"the children of the Resurrection". They have been spir- 
itually conceived. 

Abraham "found favor" with the Lord — Grace — 
Life as the Gift of God — the spiritual conception — and 
was a "servant" of the Lord. The "favor of the Lord" — 
grace as Life and Gift of God — the spiritual conception, 
makes us the servant of God — the children of God. The 
children of God are spiritually conceived and overcome the 
conception of the senses as did Abraham and Sarah of old. 
But the opposite of this spiritual conception of Abraham 
and Sarah is presented to us in the same chapter. Gen. 
18: 16-33. 

After the angels had declared to Abraham that he 
and Sarah for "righteousness" should overcome materal 
sense and a son should be born unto them, in their old 



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age, in violation of material law, and material sense, 
and that all nations of the earth should be blessed in 
him, they went with Abraham on the way to Sodom and 
Gomorrah, that he might behold these cities of the 
mind of lust and sensuality. And righteous Abraham 
plead with the Lord for their sins. Sodom and Gomorrah 
were the emblems of the cities of the mind of lust and 
sensuality — and all mortal conception is conceived in 
these cities of death, and the offspring thereof must die, 
spiritually. God will consume them in the flames of the 
mind of lust and of spiritual death. The fire of the mind 
of lust is death to the soul. All mortal conception is of the 
mind of the lust of the flesh and conceived in the cities of 
Sodom and Gomorrah and must be reconceived in the city 
of the New Jerusalem — in the city of the spiritual senses — 
to become immortal and the fruitation of life — the Son of 
God. Another demonstration of spiritual sense overcoming 
material sense, and the approximation of the absolute 
truth of spiritual conception is that of Hannah by prayer, 
conceiving Samuel. 1 Samuel 1: 3-4 chapters. 'The 
Lord revealed Himself to Samuel and the word of Samuel 
came to all Israel." (1 Samuel 3: 23). "Samuel as a 
child could speak with the Lord" (1 Samuel 4:1). Samuel 
was the fruition of prayer, his mother prayed and com- 
muned with God while conceiving and carrying him in her 
womb. The spiritual state of the Mind of parents de- 
termines the spiritual state of the offspring. If material 
sense and the mind of the lust of the flesh were overcome 
completely, all conception would be entirely spiritual, as 
was that of Jesus, and fruition thereof the Sons of God. 
The mind of the mother effects the destinies of the mind 
within the womb. Parents in this fallen state should be as 
pure as possible, in thought and desire, when begetting 
and conceiving, and the mother should be pure in thought 
and desire while carrying the child in the womb. The 
purer they are, the purer the child will be. The nearer 
they approach absolute truth and spiritual perfection 
in thought and desire, the nearer the child will be to the 
kingdom of spiritual life — the kingdom of God. 

For a soul to be a "King in Israel," it must be spiritually 
conceived. The Holy Spirit is the spiritual conception. 
There was some lust in the consciousness of the souls 
of Samuel's parents, when he was conceived, and therefore 



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he was not perfect, but he was a power in Israel for 
the reason of the high spiritual life of his mother. 

The spiritual vision of Samuel's soul could behold 
the spiritual face of God — and his soul could com- 
mune with God, his spiritual Father. As we overcome 
material sense — the lust senses of the flesh — we come 
into the consciousness of the spiritual senses of the soul 
and can behold God the Spiritual Father, and commune 
with Him as Life to the Soul. The angel appeared to the 
wife of Manoah, who was barren, and announced to her 
that she would bear a son, and commanded that she 
drink "no wine or strong drink" nor "eat any unclean 
thing," and that this son conceived in this state of spirit- 
ual life and in violation of natural law and material sense 
should deliver the children of Israel from the Philistines 
(the lust of the flesh). This child was Sampson, who 
went forth to deliver Israel (the soul) from the Philistines 
(the lust of the flesh), and he was a power in Israel until 
a woman destroyed the vision of his soul. His mother 
ascended the scale of spiritual understanding when she 
conceived, and truth was approximated. The senses of 
the soul overcame the senses of the flesh and she com- 
muned with angels, when Sampson was conceived in her 
mind. It was not a perfect spiritual conception, but 
an approximation The parents of John the Baptist 
"were well stricken" in years and they had no child be- 
cause that Elizabeth was barren. "They were both 
righteous before God, walking in all the command- 
ments and ordinances of the Lord blameless." They had 
denied the mind of the lust of the flesh. The angel ap- 
peared to Zacharias while at Altar, and said, "Thy prayer 
is heard and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son and 
thou shall call his name John, and many of the children 
of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God." "He shall 
drink neither wine nor strong drink and he shall be filled 
with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb" 
(Luke 1: 5-25). John the Baptist was conceived as the 
result of prayer, as the result of overcoming the material 
sense. The conception of John the Baptist, came nearer 
being an absolute spiritual conception than any other 
of the cases recorded in the Holy Scripture. In all of these 
cases, where material sense was overcome and conception 
took place in violation of natural law, the parents were 
old and the mothers were barren. They had reached that 



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age when the mind of the lust of the flesh had lost its 
power over their minds and souls. The mind of the lust 
of the flesh had receded from the consciousness of the 
soul, until the soul had come into the consciousness of the 
spiritual senses and could see and converse with angels, 
in the language of spirit. The fruition of such conception 
could not be otherwise than a 'Tower in Israel," and lead 
the soul of man from the bondage of the lust of the flesh 
and death into spiritual freedom and life. The last and 
final case was a perfect spiritual conception. The Angel 
Gabriel appeared unto Mary, the virgin and said, "Hail 
thou that art highly favored — that hath received grace — 
life — God's mind revealed as life — the Lord is with thee; 
thou hast found favor with the Lord" (the Greek read, 
the Grace of God — the life of God). Mary had completely 
and entirely overcome the mind of the lust of the flesh 
in desire and thought. She had overcome material sense, 
and came into the complete consciousness of God as Spirit 
and Life. She was a virgin spiritually and her fruition 
was the Son of God. He was begotten of the Holy Spirit 
and conceived entirely and absolutely of the Spirit. The 
angel said to Mary, "Behold, thou shalt conceive in thy 
womb, and bring forth a Son, and shalt call His name 
Jesus. He shall be great and shall be called the Son of 
the Highest, and the Lord God shall give unto Him the 
Throne of His Father David, and He shall reign over the 
House of Jacob forever and of His kingdom there shall 
be no end." The Throne of David is a spiritual throne 
and his kingdom is spiritual, and there shall be no end 
to this kingdom — for spirit is eternal, and the spiritual 
conception is eternal life. "And the angel answered and 
said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and 
the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee and 
therefore also that Holy thing which shall be born of thee 
shall be called the Son of God." (Luke 1: 26-35. Jesus, 
the Christ, was the Son of God because He was begotten 
of the Father and spiritually conceived. He was conceived 
according to the Divine plan — as God intended all con- 
ception. Material sense and the mind of the lust of the 
flesh had no part in His conception. He was conceived 
within the Garden of Eden — within the bosom of life — 
the Father — the flaming sword and the cherubims at the 
Gate of Eden— the carnal desires and thoughts had no 
part in His conception. All immortal conception is with- 



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in the Garden of Eden — within the bosom of the Father 
as the All Life. All mortal conception is without the Gar- 
den of Eden. It is of the flaming sword and the cherubims 
at the Garden of Eden — the lust thoughts and desires of 
the flesh, and must perish. It is not of the Divine plan. 
It is of the mind of Satan — the mind of the lust of the 
flesh — and must pass away with the material heavens 
and earth that have been * "cursed" for sin — the mind of 
lust. As we deny the senses of the flesh in and to the 
consciousness of the soul, we ascend the scale of spiritual 
understanding and the spiritual senses unfold into the 
consciousness of the soul as God's Mind and Life to the 
soul. The flaming sword and the cherubims at the Gate 
of Eden — the carnal desires of the flesh — recede from the 
mind and consciousness of the soul as the soul comes 
into the consciousness of the spiritual senses, and the 
soul is spiritually conceived and enters into Eden — the 
bosom of the Father as life eternal — and becomes the 
Son of God. Where mortal conception ends, immortal 
conception begins. The soul as a Son of God is never 
conceived of the flesh and never dies. The soul as the 
Son of God is conceived in the bosom of the Father and 
is a chitd of life and existed always and eternally, in the 
Eternal Mind of the Father. 

"But as many as received him, to them gave He 
the power to become the Sons of God, even to them that 
believe on His Name, which were born not of blood, nor 
of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man; but of God" 
(John 1: 12-13). Jesus the Christ, was spiritually con- 
ceived according to the Eternal Mind of the Father, and 
so must the soul be to become the Son of God. The soul 
must come into the perfect image that has existed always 
and eternally in the Perfect and Eternal Mind of the 
Father, to reflect the life of the Father and to become 
a Son of God — a child of Life. 

"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath be- 
stowed upon us that we should be called the Sons of God. 
Therefore the world — the lust of the flesh — knoweth us 
not because it knew Him not" (1 John 3:1). As we be- 
come the Sons of God, we are spiritually conceived, and 
come into the perfect image of the Father, which image 
existed always and eternally in His Divine Mind; and 
the consciousness of the Perfect Image of God, the Father 
within soul, creates within us a new being; and heals the 
sick body here, and gives eternal life to the soul. 



ADDRESSES AND OTHER PROCEEDINGS. 

The Proceedings and Addresses of the Second Anniversary 
of the Writings on the Bible, by Sidney C. Tapp, Ph. B., 
held in Kansas City, Mo., December 6, 1914, under the 
Auspices of the Sidney C. Tapp International Bibical 
Society. 

Judge E. M. Bartlett, Chairman, in opening the meeting, said: 

"Sin could not exist so long as there was confined in one person — 
man — Adam — the dual principle of reproduction. 

"Sin began when Eve came upon the scene of action and was 
tempted by the Serpent and yielded to his fascinations, by eating of the 
forbidden fruit in the midst of the Garden. 

"Mr. Tapp, our guest, has abundant authority for his interpreta- 
tion of the Bible. 

"Mr. Tapp, in treating the progress of man as essentially spiritual, 
will meet with the warm sympathy, hearty approval and support 
of the Christian world. 

"This interpretation of the Bible will break down caste, annihi- 
late exclusiveness and establish a spirituality such as Christ taught; 
the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. 

"It is the religion of the world." 

(By W. A. Thompson, M. D.) 

The Writings of Sidney C. Tapp will revolutionize the science of 
medicine. He has demonstrated that sickness and sin go hand in 
hand. We mean by sin, the senses of the carnal mind. His conten. 
tion that the law of sin is the law of death is a truth. There was no 
sin till the carnal senses were indulged, and mortality was the result- 
There is but one sin, as he contends, and that is the sex senses — all 
other evil comes from this sin, with mortality as the result. All 
diseases and death are in the lust senses of the carnal mind. In 
brief, this is Mr. Tapp's contention, and his contention is the truth. 
Abolish sin and you abolish sickness; overcome sin completely as 
did the Christ and you overcome death. The medical profession 
must go to studying the Mosaic Law and the Sermon on the Mount 
more and anatomy and medicine less, if it would heal the sick 
and give life to man. With Mr. Tapp's books in circulation, the Bible 
will be the textbook of health and life in generations to come, instead 
of works on anatomy and Materia Medica. Sickness may be the 
result of sin of our ancestors hundreds of years ago, but it is the 
result of sin just the same. 

(By L. A. Knox, A. B., LL. M., Attorney-at-Law). 

Ladies and Gentlemen: Science knows no clime, nor people, nor 
country; Nature unselfishly distributes her charms upon her children 

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everywhere; Christianity, unbiased and unprejudiced, seeks to pene- 
trate and soften the whole human life by establishing within us a 
conscious and an actual spiritual mind, thereby making man better 
and purer. The exponents of this unselfish dogma seek to carry this 
truth to all races and nations. 

The great efforts of the real thinkers of the world have been to 
discover the truth, and, in turn, transmit that truth to the world; that 
by the truth, men might live and have life more abundantly. In this 
class of the world's thinkers of this age, none stand out more con- 
spicuously than Mr. Sidney C. Tapp. Mr. Tapp has given us a new 
idea. Not indeed new, for there is nothing new under the sun, but he 
is the first to conceive the truth, which existed in principle, and to 
formulate it in an orderly fashion and give it to the world. 

The prophets prophesied and John saw visions, but the theolo- 
gians of the ages have failed to comprehend these prophesies or to 
interpret these visions. Not until the nineth day of December, 1912, 
when Mr. Tapp's "Truth About the Bible" came from the press, was 
was it made known to the world why Jesus of Nazareth was crucified. 

For nineteen long centuries the world had slumbered and slept 
in darkness— a sleep of sensuality and crime — until God, through a 
combination of natural forces, struck down the animal and reared in 
its stead the spiritual Sidney C. Tapp. And thus, in his Writings, we 
are brought face to face with the cause of misery, of pain, of crime, 
of prejudice, of all racial conflict and the conflict of nations. 

Shall it be possible for the lion and the lamb to dwell together 
and for the little child to lead them? Not until the root of all sin is 
removed. Mr. Tapp has shown that there is but one sin and that the 
salvation of the race rests primarily in its power to deliver itself from 
under the yoke of sex-nature and sensuality. This should be the hope 
of the race and the nations. 

All the goodness of nobility and all the greatness in man emanate 
from the spiritual mind; all that has come to man in his evolution, 
which tends toward nobility, true religious feeling, kindness, humanity, 
justice and unselfish love, have come to him through his slowly un- 
folding spiritual mind. Now, as in former times, we are taught that 
man is tempted by the devil on the one hand and helped by the 
Guardian Angel on the other, but Mr. Tapp, in his books, has shown 
that the struggle is between the two elements of man's nature not 
exactly warring against each other, but each following its own line of 
efforts, and the "Ego" being torn and bruised in its attempts to adjust 
itself harmoniously to its spiritual inclinations. 

Thus Mr. Tapp has thrown upon the Bible the searchlight of 
reason and with an undimmed vision he has discovered that all of our 
conflicts and troubles, all of our trials and tribulations, have their 
beginning in the sex-nature and sensuality. So, to free ourselves 
from this burdensome yoke, we must raise ourselves above the attrac- 
tions of sex-nature, into the dawning of a spiritual consciousness. 

Those of us who believe in and fully comprehend the spiritual 
value of Mr. Tapp's Writings shall be strengthened by the brilliancy 
of his illuminating teachings. They are the unfolding of our spiritual 
consciousness; they lift us out of the animal plane, and upon the 
wings of love and spiritual fervor, lead us to a full realization of that 
"Inner voice," whose guide is the spirit. 

May I say in conclusion that there is not a place on the shore of 
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of this man, as expressed in his books, will not touch for the glory of 
God and the good of humanity. For Mr. Tapp has given us an intelli- 
gence and a blessing which I believe shall become as universal as the 
golden ray of the universal sun, which shall give new life, new strength 
and new aspiration to that branch of the race that it is my pleasure to 
represent; and through it we shall fully understand the "Fatherhood 
of God and the Brotherhood of Man." 

(By Theo. F. Clark, M. D.) 

Truth is real; to know truth is to comprehend facts and the 
gravity of facts. With this knowledge we may be guided in the cor- 
rection of error. 

Humanity dwells too much in error, of thought, ambition, exalted 
opinion of self, selfishness and deceit; but the knowledge of that which 
is real, the knowledge of facts and the gravity of facts is all important. 

This knowledge of truth will make free; free from the errors that 
have been practiced so long that they are licensed by many as right. 

Truth exists, we need it; our need is the index to the demand and 
the demand is the measure of supply. 

In every phase of human activity there is demand and supply; 
they cannot exist separately, they are not confined to the physical, 
but are the law in social, intellectual and spiritual life as well. When 
the intellectual and spiritual demands run highest, then we realize 
more fully the abundance of the supply — truth; and the understand- 
ing of it to free us from the bondage of these limitations. 

Lack of knowledge is error. All of the unpleasant depleting con- 
ditions that we call sorrow, pain, sickness and sin are here as a result 
of a lack of that knowledge and understanding. 

Their yoke is heavy and their walls are high. These conditions 
exist in man and find their way into institutions. They have ex- 
isted long and it has always required an unusual man who did the 
unusual thing at the unusual time to start a reformation. 

When the people were under a yoke of a religious political insti- 
tution in the past centuries all suffered, some hoped, other despaired, 
some realized at least in part, but one man had an idea. The people 
were in need of liberty — there was a demand and a declaration. 

Martin Luther wrote it on a little piece of paper and passed it 
around to his associates. He went and nailed it on the door of that 
institution and then came the fight for liberty. 

Some of you remember when, in the early sixties, there were two 
great political powers opposing each other, each believing the other 
to be in error. There was a dark skinned people in bondage, having 
only the rights of slaves, and a future of such before them. They 
could not be contented when they saw their masters and other races 
enjoying positions and possessions of which they were deprived and 
believed they should share. 

There was a need, a want, a demand, and there came also the 
supply when Lincoln, an unusual man with an idea, wrote something 
unusual, and passed it along. Not to harm his brothers, whom he 
opposed, but, as he believed, to nail it to the door of error and give 
freedom to a people in bondage. 

Today we see on every hand those who are in bondage to error, 
whose future holds more terror and less hope than those who were 
in literal bondage. Their depleting effects are so appalling that they 
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They are not confined to the hardened offender, but their grasps 
lay hold of those of young and tender years. Their lines are deeply 
drawn in the intellectual and physical man. 

They arrest our attention daily in the man about town and the 
girl on the street. The area extends from the homes of nobility, 
wealth and culture to the homeless man, and the woman adrift. 
Families are ruined before they are begun. Lives are blighted when 
they should be at their best. 

Babes are made wretched or killed, longevity is lowered, use- 
fulness destroyed, the race is depleted, hospitals are filled. The whole 
of man suffers from spirituality to economics, all due to a lack of 
knowledge of truth. 

During the last two years there has been an unusual man writing 
some unusual things. 

Mr. Tapp has been passing around his Writings. He has an un- 
usual idea and an unusual interpretation of the Bible, which he is 
determined to nail on the door of the house of error. 

He has emphasized the importance of the knowledge of truth. 
He reasons from cause to effect and vice versa and declares that if 
this Idea is applied and the knowledge of truth attained that it will 
help to overcome error intellectually, socially and physically. 

It will empty our hospitals and turn them into social and educa- 
tional centers. 

It will reach the ruined home and the wretched child, cause night 
to be replaced with light and right to take the place of blight, and will 
care for the homeless man and the woman adrift. 

Know the truth, and the truth will make you free! 

(By Henry Polk Lowenstein, Attorney-at-Law.) 

About two years ago Mr. Sidney Calhoun Tapp called on me and 
informed me that he had written a book which accounted for matter 
in the Universe. I purchased the book and read it very carefully. 
It was "The Truth About the Bible." It advanced a new theory 
about the creation of the world, namely, that certain angels, or 
spiritual messengers, spiritually formed by God, in his own image 
and likeness, fell from Heaven, being cast out by Him from His 
presence as a punishment for their disobedience to his law and thrust 
upon the earth, which had been prepared by Him for them, there to 
remain forever or until such time as they might be purified to "regain" 
Heaven. 

He does not state just what became of these "angels" after their 
banishment, other than they took the form of the serpent and have 
been raising h 1 ever since. 

This book was soon followed by "Sexology of the Bible," and 
"Why Jesus Was a Man and Not a Woman." These books I also 
purchased and read, and they appealed to me more than did "The 
Truth About the Bible," because they dealt with the great creative 
force of Nature. The books are all masterful works, clear in expression 
and strong of conviction. For myself I cannot see just how the angels 
fell, when they were formed by God himself, after His own likeness 
and were spiritually manifest in a realm of pure holiness, free from 
materiality, sin, temptation and death, where all was life and love 
and perfect harmony. But, nevertheless, the book is a great work. 
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Him pronounced not only good, but "very good." It is constantly 
changing and assuming different forms, but it is never destroyed. It 
is not sufficient to say that God takes no cognizance of matter and 
at the same time admit that He created it; nor to say that He has 
no knowledge of it and at the same time attribute to Him all knowl- 
edge; nor to say that the universe is running at random, to and fro, 
with no place to stay and nowhere to go, when one admits He created 
it. God is the universe. He is all there is and man expresses Him 
and reflects the universe. The only way God can express Himself 
in consciousness is through man. There is no other way. This is the 
Christ which was manifest through Jesus from the foundation of the 
world. And this brings us to the great question which has baffled 
the ages, "What is Man?" He is certainly not flesh and blood, 
although he is manifest as such. He is something more. It is im- 
possible to conceive of man as being wiiolly spirit, otherwise there is 
no expression and man would lose his individuality. Life is radically 
distinct and individual in its expression, but always the same. 

And here we come to Mr. Tapp's great thought, given to the world 
in his Works, namely, the expression of life through the sexes — all 
life in all forms, struggling for expression and continuity, the animal 
and vegetable kingdoms reaching out and striving for the same end 
as man, namely, immortality. This proves that life is eternal, having 
no beginning nor end, but being continuous, "the same yesterday, 
today and forever." All forms of expression of life are temporal; if in- 
terrupted here they break out yonder, but wherever or whatever 
the expression, it is always the same. It never changes. Man was 
always man, oak was always oak and rock was always rock. 

And again, "What is man, whence cometh he, whither goeth he 
and what is his destiny?" I know not; but this I know; that some- 
where, above the clouds, away beyond the stars, in the Limitless 
realm of eternal love, at the throne of God, man stands revealed in 
the likeness of his Father, and this likeness is the Christ and this 
Christ is life and life is God and God is all. 

(By Geo. T. Wassom, A. B., Attorney-at-Law.) 

Mr. Chairman, Moses wrote and Jesus preached, but the world 
has never understood the thundering of Mt. Sinai nor the truth of the 
sermon on the Mount. The angels sang to the Stars of Bethlehem, 
but men have never understood the music of their notes — not until 
the 9th day of December, 1912, the day we celebrate this night, 
when the "Truth About the Bible" came from the press, by Sidney 
C. Tapp was the echo of the thunder of Mt. Sinai, the truth of the 
sermon on the Mount, and the notes of the music of the angels of 
Bethelem, translated into human consciousness and human under- 
standing, as a divine and living reality. When the author announced 
his theory, that the law of sex governed the human mind and that all 
evil is located in the sex senses and that there is no sin and no death 
in the soul consciousness — the theological world took no cognizance 
of the principle he declared, but within two years time it has not 
only gone throughout this country, but it has crossed the Atlantic and 
Pacific and lodged itself within the conscience and mind of the greatest 
thinkers of the world. No human can foretell its final effect upon 
the human family. The waves of thought enunciated by the author 
as they come into the shore bear upon their bosom the destiny of 
every ship of human existence. Every show of human activity and 



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human conscience is touched by the waves of his thoughts as enun- 
ciated in these books. The theologian will have to rewrite his theology, 
the man of science his text books of science, the philosopher will have 
to reconstruct his basis of reasoning, the psychologist will have to 
view the human mind from a different viewpoint, the criminologist 
will have to readjust his reasons for crime, the historian will have to 
recast his philosophy of history, for within the principle enunciated 
by the author is included all motive of human activity and coloring 
of the mind of human thought. 

His books, to be correctly named, should be called the "key to 
the Bible; and to all existence," for there is not any one thing or 
principle of mortal creation that is not controlled by the sex senses 
and this old dragon does not enter the dominion of the spirit as he 
clearly shows in his Works; their effect will be to diminish crime 
insanity, human greed, and avarice and to bring "peace on earth and 
good will towards men." In generations to come the idea as enun- 
ciated by Mr. Tapp will go on unfolding in the consciousness of man, 
destroying the dragon within the conscience and hearts of men and 
women and planting instead of the thoughts of the dragon, the mind 
of the Christ until indeed on earth "peace and good will" among men 
shall become as a living reality. 

His ideas will continue to permeate the minds and souls of men 
until sin and the night of the flesh shall go out and the truth of the 
spirit and light shall dawn upon all of God's spiritual creation, reflect- 
ing the glory and the image of the Father, as the Creator and the 
Father of life, until time shall have been lost in eternity and death 
swallowed up in victory. 

Mr. Chairman, "God moves in mysterious ways his wonders to 
perform." This man was born an invalid and before the noon day of 
life, stood in the arena of his chosen profession of the law and measured 
lances in intellectual combat with all comers, until his frail body could 
stand the contest no longer and he retired from earthly struggles to 
give up the ghost, and is with us tonight by virtue of the living truth 
of his writings. Disappointed in life and broken in spirits of earthly 
ambition, he saw the vision of the "Holy City," and translated it into 
consciousness for us, and wherever there is a sin cursed soul, torn and 
tattered by the senses and in bondage to the lust senses of the flesh, 
wandering in the night of sensuality, but crying out for the light of 
truth, and to be free from the sin of the flesh and walk in the light of 
the spirit, his ideas as disclosed in these Works will be the spiritual 
guide posts, to direct that soul to where there is no night, and no death, 
and where that soul may know the truth and be free indeed. 

Such an idea could only have been conceived in the bosom of the 
Father and the eternal can never die. 

The seeker after divine truth and the worshipper of the living 
God, in this benighted and sinful world, owe to the author a debt of 
gratitude for writing unto men the key to that Book of books, the 
truth from God and explained by the author, so simple that a child 
can read and understand the law of sex and its controlling influence 
upon the human family. 

(By John J. Hyde, Attorney-at-Law.) 

Familiar as we are with the Writings of Mr. Tapp and the central 
idea expressed by them we may well ask ourselves in the light of 
passing events the question, "What effect will these Writings have 
upon the peace of the nations once they are rightly understood?" 



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Will they render impossible war and rumors of war and a repeti- 
tion of the overwhelming conflict now in progress and involving well 
nigh all the nations of the civilized world? My answer is they will, 
since by removing the cause, you make war itself impossible. 

Now that sex and the prostitution of sex to the uses of lust have 
in all ages since the fall of Adam been the great moving causes of 
strife among nations is well settled by the testimony of history. The 
ravishment of a Trojan Helen tells us of a memorable conflict precipi- 
tated by sex. The amours of a Cleopatra recall the turmoils brought 
on by the lust for woman. So Lucretia Borgia and Josephine, who be- 
yond doubt was a great inspiring cause of Napoleon's mad ambition 
and perhaps at last because of the desire of Bonaparte for an heir, 
the beginning of his downfall, are foremost examples of the conse- 
quences of lust. Not to speak of Mary, queen of Scots, and the women 
of the Bourbon line we pass on to a Pompadour and Du Barry, the 
lust for whom aroused the passions of princes and of kings. 

The philosophy of nations has found expression in the proverb, 
"Cherchez la femme," "seek the woman," whose sex pitted against 
the sex of man has proved his eternal undoing. 

The pages of literature are emblazoned with illustrations of the 
sex problem and its dreadful consequences. The master hand of a 
Shakespeare has painted large the motive for Othello's crime and Mac- 
beth's red deeds and pilloried the lust that drove the Prince of Den- 
mark mad, as some think Hamlet was. And the soul of Shakespeare 
speaks in the lines, "Give me the man that is not passion's slave and 
I will wear him in my hearts of hearts, as I do thee." 

Tapp therefore has raised aloft a torch before the eyes of men 
bidding them look to the festering sore that corrodes the foundations 
of our social fabric and threatens to break forth and engulf us in 
universal ruin. His thought is at once a warning and a remedy ap- 
pealing to us to come at last into the understanding of problems as 
old as the world. His pages prove conclusively that the spirit of man 
alone can be trusted and that not until we have brought sex under 
the leash of this understanding shall the words of the Prince of 
Peace be true. "My peace I give you; my peace I leave you." 
(By Sidney C. Tapp, Ph. B.) 

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: — I was a lawyer, prac- 
ticing law when I conceived of the idea disclosed in my books on the 
Bible. As a lawyer, daily dealing in divorce cases and murder cases, 
I discovered that there was something radically and elementally 
wrong with the psychology of human nature. A man would come to 
me today, who a few years ago, led a beautiful bride to the music of 
the wedding march, and declared that he would love and protect her, 
and yet he sat in my office charged as a murderer for having taken 
the life of the woman whom he declared he would honor and protect. 
Tomorrow, a woman would come to me and offer me all she had of her 
earthly possessions, if I would only land her husband in the peni- 
tentiary; first weeping then spitting fire from her tongue, she would 
declare that she once loved him, but now hated him. Revenge was 
sweet to her. He, once behind prison bars, she would return and 
propose to give me all she could steal the remainder of her life, if I 
would have him released. This daily contact with such a psychological 
condition made me think. I asked myself, what was it within human 
nature that made it so deceptive, so cruel, so changeable and so self 



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destructive; and I analyzed the human mind. I finally arrived at the 
conclusion that it was the sex, and I began to study the Bible from 
this viewpoint, and my books on the Bible are the results. The Bible 
is a book of nature; it discloses old mortal man with all of his car- 
nality, as he is; and the soul, the man made in God's image, who is 
spirit, as he is. All the depravity is within the sex senses of the human 
man. There is not any sex, sin and death within the spiritual man. 
That is the reason the Christ was conceived without a natural father. 
He was a spiritual conception, as all of God's creation was intended 
originally. The original command "to be fruitful, multiply, replenish 
and subdue the earth," was a spiritual command, and the multiplica- 
tion commanded was a spiritual increase and a spiritual conception. 
There was not any human conception until after this command was 
disobeyed and man fell; with carnal conception and human multipli- 
cation as the result. In studying crime, insanity and disease, I dis- 
covered that they were all located in the carnal mind and produced 
by the lust and sex senses. ("For this cause thou wast taken from 
dust and unto dust thou shall return.") I realize that the sins of 
the fathers are visited on the third and fourth generations. I saw as 
I came into the consciousness of this truth, that if we are to solve 
the problem of crime and disease, to say nothing of the salvation of 
the soul, it must be done by the teachings of the Christ. I attempted 
to give the truth to the ministry and have them to take up the work, 
but they were apparently blind to the truth — they gave me no en- 
couragement. I was born an invalid, according to natural law I 
have no right to live and should have been dead many years ago, 
but in my frail condition, I retired from the practice of law, to write 
these books and to give this truth to the world. I soon found myself 
without money and without aid. I walked your streets hungry 
while giving this idea to the world. Your church bells have sounded, 
the notes from your magnificent organs have echoed through your 
palatial churches in your city, while I was in some lonely room, 
poorly clad and poorly fed, alone with God, shedding tears over this 
truth. In the lonely hours of the night I have wet the pillow upon 
which my head lay, praying that some one would come to my aid 
in this work. I did not have money to employ a stenographer to take 
my notes. My spine had been affected from five operations, so that 
I could not write, and I walked your streets and begged some one to 
take a little dictation for me, here and there, that I might give the 
idea to a sin-cursed world. 

I had assailed "The Beast," and was unconscious of what I had 
done until my first book was from the press. I had laid bare that 
"Monster" — sensuality, for which the human lives and for which he 
dies; and in so doing I have incurred the silent contempt of eccle- 
siasticism, licentiousness and corruption in what is supposed to be the 
Christian Church, but what in fact is rank paganism, the religion of 
the sex-senses. 

I understand now, as never before, that no man can buy or sell 
unless he bows down to the "Beast." It was this "Beast" within men, 
sensuality, that the teachings of the Christ condemned, and it was this 
"Beast" that crucified the Jesus on the cross, but the Christ over- 
came the "Beast" and came forth from the grave to give life unto the 
soul and destroy the "Beast" within men. In these writings I am 
attempting to disclose the truth of the Christ, and to expose the error 



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of the "Beast," and as long as the mind remains within this frail body 
I intend to continue the work for the Kingdom's sake and for the 
Christ and His cause. 

Christianity is the overcoming of the beast — sensuality. The 
Christ at thirty years of age overcame the senses of the man Jesus, 
and declared that the Kingdom of God was at hand. As we come into 
the Christ Mind and overcome the Beast, the soul comes into 
the Kingdom of God. The image of the beast is death to the soul. 
The image of the Christ is life eternal. 

(By E. L. Miller, LL. B.) 

The State of Kansas has a motto which expresses a great truth, 
"To the stars through difficulties." This thought applies to our friend, 
the Hon. Sidney C. Tapp, whom we are pleased to honor this evening. 

While he was not born in a manger, the death of his mother, when 
he was only 18 months old, and of his father when the boy was 
only nine years old, the dissipation of the father's estate, thoughtless- 
ness of near relatives, lack of friends at hand to love, nurture and 
care for him at that tender age, threw him on the cold mercies of an 
unsympathetic world as a waif. Those who neglected him at nine, 
when he had grown large enough to make a hand in the field, then 
tried to have him bound to them during his minority. As the good 
Father cares for his jewels, fortune had put in the office of county 
judge one who was a friend of the boy's father. The judge saw through 
their disguise of pretended consideration and refused to fasten upon 
the tender lad the chains of servitude. He allowed the boy his free- 
dom to contract his services. He had then latent the spark of ambi- 
tion which was burning in his breast and he arranged to plow in sum- 
mer and to go to school in the winter. 

It was through some years of difficulties that he traveled this 
lonely path with patient watching of this little fire on the altar of his 
heart and in due time he matriculated in one of the fine colleges of 
North Carolina. 

What do you think the passion for learning must have been in that 
dear young heart when, with no friend backing him, no provision made 
for the year's expenses, this modern knight entered the lists in search 
of the golden grail of culture. The kind heartedness of the boarding 
house keeper is all that prevented a collapse of this first superhuman 
effort against difficulty. 

The young man sold during the following summer a small tract 
of land which was still left from his mother's estate, and the pur- 
chaser knowing his sense of honor, advanced the money on his worth- 
less (as some would consider it) contract, but which was faithfully 
carried out at his majority. Most of the proceeds went to the good 
landlady who had credited him. This left him with but little money 
at the beginning of the second year's work in a college in South Caro- 
lina, to which he decided to go. 

Passing over the days and hours of struggle, which can be under- 
stood only by those who have tried to accomplish hard tasks with but 
few friends and no money, we come to the last hours of his graduat- 
ing year. If he had not been a student, if he had not had the respect 
of the faculty and student body, he would have been obliged to slink 
away without a diploma, as he had not money to pay the usual grad- 
uating expenses. He had sold his books and was ready to go when 
the treasurer of the college, hearing of his unfortunate plight, offered 



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to lend him the money to pay for his diploma. It is said that his thesis 
as class historian was one of the memorable papers read at the grad- 
uating exercises and foretold, in a way, the promise of accomplishment 
which later ripened in a very scholarly works, "The Struggle and the 
Story of Anglo-Saxon Institutions, or the Development of Constitu- 
tional Government." 

After graduation, our young knight, still in pursuit of his quest 
and with fires glowing more brightly in his young heart, determined 
to be a lawayer, but first wished to take a post graduate literary course, 
and borrowed the money to go to the University of Chicago. A lack 
of funds prevented his completing the course. Our friend, having gone 
to Texas for his health, was admitted there to practice law and finally 
determined to enter the lists with the tried and trained lawyers of a 
great Southern city, Atlanta. After passing the usual examinations, 
he went forth to give and take in that most heartless of arenas, bat- 
tling in all the courts, both state and federal, with such marked suc- 
cess that he had to be reckoned with in court and on the hustings. 

An inherited weak nervous system, which had set up its warning 
signals during the infancy and youth of our friend, had more and 
more emphasized itself. Surgical operations which were decreed nec- 
essary, beginning shortly after leaving the university and coming to 
the climax with a very serious operation on the bones of his ear at 
the highest point of his professional success, now reduced the physical 
strength of our friend so that he was forced to leave a very lucrative 
practice and start on his many journeys for health. This misfortune 
came while he was still very young in his professional life, but not 
until he had distinguished himself in some of the greatest legal battles 
of these recent years in the United States, including the battle royal 
over the freeing of Caleb Powers, in which Mr. Tapp risked his life 
and won a great victory. First a short sojourn in Denver, then hoping 
against hope, to Texas and to California, all efforts seemed in vain 
These journeys left him where he began as an orphan, without money 
and with most of his friends too full of their own cares to give a 
thought to him. 

It was during the years while he was practicing law that he was 
inspired with the idea that all the sin, sickness, sorrow, suffering 
and despair in the world come either directly or as an inheritance 
from the indulgence of the sex nature. He began to study the greatest 
of all written books, the Bible, and he soon saw that it teaches that 
sex carried the seed which ripens in sin. It was while he was in 
what he thought was his death bed that he dictated the "Truth About 
the Bible," a book which bids fair to upset some of the smug theories 
of conventional sociology and theology. 

We are met here tonight to congratulate the author of that great 
work on the fact that the spark of his early genius has not gone out, 
but is still alive in his breast and that he is still with us with a burning 
desire to help the world to a better life. His trials have been great. 
The road has been hard. But friends are multiplying. The heart still 
throbs, and as we look out into the great vista of the universe, we con- 
gratulate him that we can truthfully say of him, "To the Stars 
Through Difficulties." 

(By Dr. M. L. Hartwell, D. O.) 

Fellow seekers for truth; we are here thru mutual interest as 
students seeking for truth of the Divine Law. We come to commem- 



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orate the day on which the first book by Sidney C. Tapp, giving to the 
world that light which has so long been hidden, came from the press. 

The subject which I am to present, "Mr. Tapp's Writings mean a 
New Spiritual World," would perhaps be understood more clearly if I 
were to state it: "Mr. Tapp's writings mean a new awakening in the 
Scriptures that "God is the Father of light, and in Him is no dark- 
ness at all." Many other passages refer to God in a similar manner, 
but none refer to him as the author of darkness or death. We are 
impressed with the thought of great contrast as shown so clearly all 
through the Bible. Light and darkness; love and jealousy; life and 
death, and so on through the Book of Books; a great picture is painted 
of Perfect Light on the one side, and absolute darkness on the other. 
In everyday life one can see all about him in what we are pleased to 
call Human Nature, the universal law of opposites. We see in our 
fellowman and we experience in ourselves a constant wavering from 
light to darkness and from darkness to light. 

All this was in the vision of Sidney C. Tapp, and moreover, as 
Daniel of old, he saw in it a spiritual truth. His books today are an 
evidence of his love for God and his fellow-man. In his books he has 
given a message of truth to a world that has wandered far from the 
light, just as the Christ was Perfect Truth given to a world dead in 
trespassers and sin. 

We find in the Bible the history of the origin of man's dual nature. 
In Genesis is recounted the creation of man in the image of God; a 
being of choice, but a being having only knowledge of good — God. 
This man had only the attributes of holy spirit; that is, he had not 
the attributes of the spirits that rebelled against God's kingdom. 
The attributes of God and His spiritual kingdom are light, life, love 
(love that knows no jealousy) and all that is good. 

The attributes of the spirits of darkness — those who rebelled 
with Lucifer as is recounted in Isaiah 14: 12-14 and who were cast 
from their holy estate to the earth as recorded in Rev. 12: 7-9 — are 
those of the earth, darkness, death, mortality, selfishness, vanity, 
lust, etc. 

In the Garden of Eden allegory, pictured by Moses as revealed to 
him by God centuries after creation, man is found in his first estate. 
God-like and perfect, but subject to the influence of the spirits of dark- 
ness. He was commanded by God to subdue the earth — bring it under 
subjection to God's divine law from which law it had been cast out and 
put under the influence of and made to have the attributes of the 
fallen spirits at the time mentioned in Isaiah and Revelation. 

Man, through yielding his holy consciousness and becoming for 
the instant conscious of one of the attributes of the fallen spirits, be- 
came conscious of and partook of the attributes of the law opposed to 
God's law. He became mortal — could only be perpetuated by repro- 
duction, a function having in it inherent death, both to the body and 
the spirit. Thus man came to know good from evil, and his means of 
communicating with God was lost, for he had lost the image of God. 

In the Old Testament is the history of man's proneness to farsake 
God's law and to shirk the divine command to subdue the earth, and 
time after time we find that man is punished by flood, pestilence and 
plague. Sacrifices were made; blood was shed that God might have 
compassion on the wayward spirits of those in the flesh; thus we 
find the story over and over again in the old testament and then Jesus 



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Christ was manifested in the flesh without a natural father that he 
might be born of God's will and not by the functioning of the law of 
error. Had he been born of natural parents (under mortal law) or 
had he indulged mortal law when he awakened to the necessity of being 
about His Father's (God's) business, or until he was able to say at the 
age of thirty, "I have overcome the world," (senses of the flesh), he 
could not have been the Savior of the world. Had he indulged mortal 
law or been begotten through that law, he would have had inherent 
death in his nature and could not have overcome the grave. 

Thus the seemingly inexplainable things in God's book are once 
more made clear to the world through the writings of this man. 

I fell a deep gratitude to Mr. Tapp for the light his views have 
given me of the Scriptures and it is my earnest desire that the truth 
he has given may spread to the uttermost parts of the earth that God's 
Kingdom may come and His Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. 

BE IT RESOLVED, by this Society, that in our opinion the 
teaching of the Bible, as disclosed in Mr. Tapp's books, will do more to 
prevent war and to bring peace to the nations than all the standing 
armies and peace treaties of the world. Therefore, 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, The secretary is hereby 
directed to transmit a copy of this resolution to the President of the 
United States, the Secretary of State, the Foreign Offices, of the dif- 
ferent Powers, that they may have their attention called to the ver- 
sion Mr. Tapp places upon the Bible, and the cause of war within 
human nature as treated by him; likewise, the secretary is directed 
to transmit a copy of these resolutions to the various heads and offi- 
cials of the Protestant religious world, and to His Eminence, J. 
Cardinal Gibbons, and he be requested to transmit it to His Holiness, 
the Pope, to the end that the religious world's attention may be called 
to the nature within men which produces war so that the Christian 
world may know how to view war and to deal with it from a view- 
point of the Bible and the teachings of the Christ, and that peace may 
be declared upon the earth. 

BE IT RESOLVED, by this Society, in our opinion, that the 
teachings of nature as disclosed in Mr. Tapp's works on the Bible, 
must be the final remedies by which disease, insanity and crime must 
be abolished from human nature and society. We believe that the 
Bible, as disclosed by him, discloses the law of health for the body and 
life for the soul; and that sin and sickness go hand in hand and that 
the medical profession must finally come to realize this truth if they 
are to be benefactors of the human race. We mean by sin, the indul- 
gence of sensuality and lust which destroys not only the human body, 
but the human mind and is death to the soul. It is clear to any 
thinking mind that sin, as herein defined, has been transmitted from 
parents to children from generation to generation until the civilized 
world is becoming the habitation of hospitals, jails and insane asylums. 
If this condition, which is the curse of the human race, is to be erad- 
icated from society; it must be done by the law of nature as disclosed 
in the Bible and the truth of the spirit as taught by the Christ. 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the secretary of this so- 
ciety be directed to transmit a copy of this resolution to the American 
Medical Association and the other various medical associations of this 
country, Canada and Europe to the end that the attention of the mem- 



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bers thereof may be called to the interpretation of the Bible as dis- 
closed by Mr. Tapp. as the remedy, not only for spiritual life, but for 
physical health. 

RESOLVED, That the name of this Society shall be changed to, 
and hereafter be called, the Sidney C. Tapp International Biblical 
Society. There shall be a president, three vice-presidents and a secre- 
tary, who shall constitute the working and executive committee, and 
they shall be from the state of Mr. Tapp's legal residence. There shall 
be an assistant secretary, Mr. Tapp's stenographer or confidential 
clerk, shall fill this office, and in connection with the secretary, and 
when Mr. Tapp and the secretary are absent from each other, shall 
act as secretary at Mr. Tapp's direction and shall carry on the corres- 
pondence of the Society and shall perform the duties of secretary. 

There shall be eligible two vice-presidents from each state and 
foreign country; there shall be two classes of members, active and 
honorary members. The honorary members shall not have any voice 
in the active affairs of the Society. The purpose of the Society shall 
be to aid Mr. Tapp in publishing and circulating his books, and to dis- 
seminate the ideas of his writings, and he shall have the privilege of 
publishing his books under the auspices of the Society, he retaining 
the title and copyrights thereto as author and publisher. There shall 
be an annual meeting each year and such other meetings from time to 
time, that may be desired. The Society shall encourage and suggest 
the organization of local societies, as Mr. Tapp's idea develops in 
this country and in foreign nations, for studying and disseminating 
the ideas of Mr. Tapp's writings. 

The President, the three Vice-Presidents and the Secretary con- 
stituting the executive committee shall have power to formulate such 
rules and regulations that shall be necessary from time to time to carry 
on the work of the Society, and may fix and name the membership 
fees and devise other means that will be necessary to raise the funds 
to carry on the work of the Society to give Mr. Tapp the necessary aid 
in preparing and bringing forth his books. They may likewise have 
the power to arrange for honorary membership and the fee therefor. 
The secretary and the assistant secretary shall carry on an active cor- 
respondence to secure necessary aid to supply the funds for the work 
of the Society. There may be an advisory committee composed of 
honorary members, to be named by the executive committee. The 
President and in his absence, the ranking Vice-President shall have 
power to carry on the work of the Society and issue all calls for funds 
in the absence of the executive committee, and when they are not in 
session. 

Kansas City, Mo., November, 1914. 

We, the undersigned Physicians and Surgeons, having investi- 
gated the writings of Sidney C. Tapp on the Bible, are thoroughly 
convinced that he has raised a question that should not be ignored, 
but should be given to the world and placed in general circulation 
among the masses of the people. His explanation and interpreta- 
tion of the Bible, from the law of sex means great good to the human 
family. He therein shows that the mind is controlled by the sex- 
senses and that sin is a matter of sex; that disease, sickness, mental 
derangement and insanity originate in the sex. In this contention, 
in our opinion, he has harmonized the truth of the Bible with the law 



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of science and the law of the mind, and thus done a great work in 
causing the scientific world to accept the Bible as a divine book. 

In our opinion, the medical professional will have to view sick- 
ness and disease, both mentally and physically, from Mr. Tapp's 
viewpoint and from the law of the Bible as he has interpreted it, in 
the future. His works are clean, chaste and pure, and yet scientific, 
and should be read by the youth from twelve to twenty years of age, 
in each coming generation. They should likewise be read by the 
fathers and mothers that they may know how to raise their children 
to be sound men and women, mentally and physically. 

Mr. Tapp's works on the Bible will do more to empty our jails, 
insane asylums and hospitals, than any idea that has ever been given 
to the world, in our opinion, to say nothing of the great good, morally 
and spiritually, they will do to the human race. He has indeed pro- 
duced a world idea that should be in every home and library in the 
civilized world. Mr. Tapp is a frail man, in fact an invalid and without 
means to publish and circulate these books, and we make this state- 
ment after having investigated them, and hope it will be the means of 
arresting the attention of men of means and philanthrophy to the end 
that they may aid, financially, Mr. Tapp in circulating and publish- 
ing these books. Men with means cannot contribute to a cause that 
would do the human race greater good. We have not one cent of 
interest, directly or indirectly, in the matter. We make this state- 
ment freely and voluntarily as a matter of interest to the human race 

W. A. THOMPSON, M. D. 

W. A. SWAN, M. D. 

S. M. McCUBBIN, M. D. 

H. F. MIKEL, A. B. M. D. 

THEODORE F. CLARK, M. D. 

Many letters were read at the anniversary by distinguished men 
from all parts of the country, but for want of space, we publish only 
two from North Carolina, Mr. Tapp's native state, and the letter 
from Dr. Booker T. Washington, as the spokesman for his race: 
Durham, N. C, November 28, 1914. 
Mr. Sidney C. Tapp, 

My Dear Sir: — I am greatly pleased to learn of the Anniversary of 
your distinguished life and services, which will occur on the evening of 
December 9th, and I deeply deplore the fact that I shall be unable to 
be present because of a business engagement that calls me to New 
York on that date. 

I greatly rejoice at the success of your most wonderful books. I 
read them with a great deal of interest, and hope they will be of ma- 
terial benefit to me, arid to all others who are fortunate enough to 
have the privilege of reading them. And in addition to the good they 
have done, and will do, I trust they will bring you both fame and 
fortune. 

We remember you in this section with a great deal of respect and 
veneration. Old Orange County is proud that Sidney C. Tapp is a 
native of her soil, and our good wishes follow you always. 

Very sincerely, your friend, 

JULIAN S. CARR. 



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Moravian Falls, N. C, November, 29, 1914. 
Judge Sidney C. Tapp, 

Kansas City, Mo. 
My Dear Judge Tapp: — I should be happy to be with you, both as 
an old North Carolinian and as a writer who has evolved an original 
idea, but I am a Yeoman in the ranks, and must remain at my post 
while others pay tribute to the creators of thoughts that better the 
human race in books. 

I have been privileged to read several of your works, and have 
witnessed with pleasure the nucleus of a new ideal of life and living 
that lies therein. I should be glad to partake of the anniversary trib- 
ute which your fellow citizens will accord you, and I heartily approve 
of the plan. That men who evolve ideas that benefit humanity should 
be heralded and applauded rather than returning heroes from wars of 
waste and conquest has always been my theory. I would rather be the 
author of "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" than the victor of every 
battlefield that has crimsoned human history's pages. That your 
works shall live to benefit humanity long ages after we shall all have 
been called beyond, is my confident belief and fervent prayer. May 
God bless you and your efforts for the amelioration of the world. 
Farternally and faithfully yours, 
R. DON LAWS, 
Editor and Publisher, The Yellow Jacket. 
Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, December 4th, 1914. 
Dr. W. A. Thompson, 

Central Building, Twelfth Street, 

Kansas City, Mo. 
Dear Doctor Thompson: — The significance of Mr. Tapp's phil- 
osophy has been called to my attention recently and I regret that I 
have not taken time to thoroughly digest it. Just as soon as I can 
spare the time I mean to give some study to his viewpoint of the 
deeper meaning of the Bible. 

My sincerest sympathy goes out to Mr. Tapp in his distress and 
affliction and I wish that I could render a more tangible service than 
this letter. 

I regret that-I cannot be present at the anniversary tonight, and 
my sincerest hope is that a large and substantial sum is realized from 
it. I thank you most heartily for the invitation to attend and for the 
recognition given those of my race on your excellent program. 
Very truly yours, 

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. 



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